[Ubuntu] Fwd: [GRASS-dev] ubuntu gis policy

[Daniel Morissette]

Hi Martin,

Little clarification for the non-expert lurkers like myself, are you 
suggesting that the naming order should be as follows?

    unstable --> testing --> stable

... which would match the Debian policy found here:

    https://www.debian.org/releases/

Daniel


On 2016-09-16 8:37 AM, Martin Landa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I took liberty to forward opinion about PPA naming from GRASS ML.  The
> name for unstable PPA is simply confusing (moreover with combination
> of testing PPA used for experimental packages - especially for Debian
> users). Could be that I missed discussion about PPA naming, anyway
> current names do not respect real usage of PPAs in my eyes.
>
> And I want to express again big thanks (especially to Angelos) for
> making ubuntugis project alive! Martin
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Blumentrath, Stefan <Stefan.Blumentrath at nina.no>
> Date: 2016-09-16 13:12 GMT+02:00
> Subject: RE: [GRASS-dev] ubuntu gis policy
> To: Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>, GRASS developers list
> <grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
>
>
> Hei Martin,
>
> Do you have any chance to influence the naming of the PPAs?
>
> As recently also discussed on the QGIS mailinglist, packages from a
> repository named "unstable" can get blocked by system administrators
> (who not necessarily will take the time to try to understand what is
> behind all applications), regardless if I as a user tell them that
> "unstable" actually means "current release"...
>
> Would be nice to have a more admin-friendly name there...
>
> Cheers
> Stefan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: grass-dev [mailto:grass-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf
> Of Martin Landa
> Sent: 16. september 2016 13:03
> To: GRASS users list <grass-user at lists.osgeo.org>; GRASS developers
> list <grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: [GRASS-dev] ubuntu gis policy
>
> Hi all,
>
> recently ubuntugis maintainers changed their policy. This means that
> currently is used this workflow:
>
> OSGeoLive nightly --> UbuntuGIS Testing --> UbuntuGIS Unstable -->
> UbuntuGIS Stable
>
> What does it means for GRASS?
>
> 1) experimental packages (like Release Candidates) are uploaded to
> Testing PPA [1]
> 2) final version packages are uploaded to Testing and Unstable [2]
> 3) Stable PPA can contain older version [3]
>
> For user who want to help with testing experimental packages: please
> use Testing PPA otherwise use Unstable (if you prefer up-to-date
> version) or Stable PPA (you prefer stability - slightly older versions).
>
> Martin
>
> [1] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ubuntugis-testing
> [2] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ubuntugis-unstable
> [3] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
>
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