[GRASS-dev] Few notes to GRASS 7 Launchpad builds

[Ivan Mincik]

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Hi GRASS devs,
since I have been playing with building GRASS 7 for Ubuntu I have few little
improvement proposals:

1. Current GRASS package version suffix (revno) is currently made from Bazaar
import version, which is meaningless for users (for example:
7.0.0~ppa~2~revno-31311~ubuntu12.04.1 - 31311 is that Bazaar version)
I would propose to update to 0.4 version of Launchpad build recipes and change
{revno} variable to {svn-revno} which will be substituted by GRASS SVN
revision number rather than meaningless Bazaar import revision as it was now.
SVN version is much higher value than BZR, so no problems with upgrades

Also, I propose to update little bit version format to latest standards [1][2].

Proposed recipe:
# bzr-builder format 0.4 deb-version 7.0.0+1svn{svn-revno}
lp:grass/7.0
nest debianfiles lp:~grass/grass/grass70_release_debian debian


2. GRASS Stable PPA depends on both ubuntugis-stable and ubuntugis-unstable
PPA repositories which can produce unexpected results. I am proposing to
choose only one of them.


3. GRASS 7 builds should be fixed now (fix is already loaded in bzr). It is
needed to request for build.


1 -
http://linuxminded.nl/tmp/pkg-grass-website/policy/packaging.html#ubuntugis-ppa

2 - https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/BuildingASourcePackage

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Ivan Minčík
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