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

[Martin Landa]

Dear Ivan,

2014-12-09 11:30 GMT+01:00 Ivan Mincik <ivan.mincik at gmail.com>:

> 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

I can try to do it recently I became member of the Launchpad team [1].
Do I need administrator status for this job?

> 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.

This can be changed also by administrator only, I guess?

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

Thanks a lot for the fix! We definitely need to improve our builds on
Launchpad....

Martin

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