[Ubuntu] QGIS: unsupported SAGA version after last update -- ubuntugis-unstable channel

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 7/23/19 8:27 PM, Domenico Mozzanica wrote:
> Please, could you check this problem?

No. Such is the fate of processing plugins.

SAGA 2.3.x was hopelessly outdated, and freezing that branch and dub it
LTS didn't really work out. It didn't break qgis often, but it also
didn't backport fixes to keep up with changes in the system. See how
much grief it caused in Fedora for example.

If projects when their processing plugin to not break when their project
is upgraded, they need to provide a stable API that QGIS can use. If
your project cannot do that, it shouldn't be a QGIS plugin.

The SAGA update is required to unblock to transition to PROJ 6, which is
much more important than keeping the QGIS plugin working. It sucks for
QGIS users of the SAGA plugin, you should voice your complaints to SAGA
upstream.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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