[Ubuntu] creating GRASS packages for UbuntuGIS

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 17-01-16 14:59, Martin Landa wrote:
> 2016-01-17 13:09 GMT+01:00 Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl>:
>> We only have to rebuild libgdal-grass since qgis will be removed
>> from the archive on the 26th, so we don't have much of a transition to
>> coordinate.
> 
> btw, why qgis is going to be removed from the archive? Thanks, Martin

This is documented on the package tracker:

 https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/qgis

Which lists:

 Marked for autoremoval on 26 January: 784514

Read the linked bugreport for details.

Qt4 is EOL, and its WebKit component has been removed because its
security issues cannot be fixed any more.

QGIS upstream doesn't support Qt5 builds completely yet, as they were
slow to move away from the EOL Qt4.

Hopefully next months 2.14 release will build successfully with Qt5 so
we still include qgis in stretch. If not, qgis will be reintroduced via
stretch-backports when we can build it successfully with Qt5.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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