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<p>I've got customers with servers running Ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04.
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<p>Older LTS versions of Ubuntu need access to the updates to GIS
packages. As fixes and improvements get added, how will this be
reflected in UbuntuGIS? <br>
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I do not understand the process of how the Ubuntu packages get
updated. In the past I've used UbuntuGis-unstable to get updated
versions of MapServer which have fixes I needed to run on production
servers.<br>
<p>I think a defined policy of what is included in Stable, Unstable
and Testing/Experimental is important.<br>
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Thanks to all who are working to keep UbuntuGis up to date!<br>
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<b>Worth Lutz</b><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/25/2016 9:15 PM, Alex Mandel
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<pre wrap="">On 04/25/2016 01:59 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 04/25/2016 11:45 PM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 10:04 PM, Alex M <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tech_dev@wildintellect.com"><tech_dev@wildintellect.com></a>
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<pre wrap="">Historically we haven't done a great job of keeping stable very
relevant, but people running servers in production really ought to be
using it and not unstable. Maybe a clearer policy on when things should
move to stable needs to be made (it is ok for some packages to be the
same version as unstable).
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<pre wrap="">With quite DebianGIS quite up-to-date, Ubuntu already has rather
recent versions of most packages. I think stable becomes perhaps even
less relevant. For non-LTS releases I think we should not use it
(well, never say never). For LTS releases, I think the policy of
copying whatever gets on OSGeo live after the release is quite a good
policy. It gets a lot of testing.
Kind Regards,
Johan
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+1 to rename testing to experimental. Actually I have started building
everything based on gdal 2.0 there already.
Also, +1 for a policy to copy everything from OSGeoLive after release.
Best,
Angelos
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Only latest Ubuntu has recent versions of most packages.
12.04 and 14.04 actually have fairly old packages at this point but are
still in wide use and will be for another 1,3 years respectively.
UbuntuGIS stable is moot for Xenial but very important to Trusty. If
someone needs to stick to QGIS 2.8 and GDAL 1.11.x stable is where they
should be able to get that. In 6 months to a year stable will actually
become important for Xenial too since QGIS 2.14 will be the LTS and
should move to stable, with 2.16 and the upcoming 3.x series going to
unstable...
+1 to copying packages from osgeo-live, however we shouldn't let that
timetable keep us from updating unstable whenever new releases come out.
As I've said before in the past, if we can create simpler instructions
for all the easyish packages, there are more volunteers who would gladly
help keep packages flowing. I suppose we should make a list of who
generally upkeeps which packages.
Thanks,
Alex
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