[GRASS-dev] grass70 package name

Martin Landa landa.martin at gmail.com
Sat Feb 21 04:38:23 PST 2015


Hi,

2015-02-13 18:18 GMT+01:00 Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl>:
> On 02/13/2015 06:09 PM, Martin Landa wrote:
>> a name of the package eg. on Launchpad [1] for GRASS 7 is `grass70`.
>> The main reason was probably to allow users running GRASS 6 and GRASS
>> 7 in parallel.  I am not sure if it's good idea to continue in this
>> way. We are close to GRASS 7.0.0 release. Is it really planned to ship
>> GRASS 7 as `grass70` package or just simply as `grass` (which would
>> mean upgrade from 6.4.4 to 7.0.0 from user POV).
>
> The choice between separate source packages or not was also discussed on
> the Debian GIS list, see the thread starting at:
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-gis/2015/01/msg00004.html

then I would strongly suggest to name the package for GRASS 7 as
`grass7` and `grass70`.

Martin


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