[GRASS-dev] ubuntu gis policy

[Yann Chemin]

+1
same problem been seen more than once

On 16 September 2016 at 13:12, Blumentrath, Stefan <
Stefan.Blumentrath at nina.no> wrote:

> Hei Martin,
>
> Do you have any chance to influence the naming of the PPAs?
>
> As recently also discussed on the QGIS mailinglist, packages from a
> repository named "unstable" can get blocked by system administrators (who
> not necessarily will take the time to try to understand what is behind all
> applications), regardless if I as a user tell them that "unstable" actually
> means "current release"...
>
> Would be nice to have a more admin-friendly name there...
>
> Cheers
> Stefan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: grass-dev [mailto:grass-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of
> Martin Landa
> Sent: 16. september 2016 13:03
> To: GRASS users list <grass-user at lists.osgeo.org>; GRASS developers list <
> grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: [GRASS-dev] ubuntu gis policy
>
> Hi all,
>
> recently ubuntugis maintainers changed their policy. This means that
> currently is used this workflow:
>
> OSGeoLive nightly --> UbuntuGIS Testing --> UbuntuGIS Unstable -->
> UbuntuGIS Stable
>
> What does it means for GRASS?
>
> 1) experimental packages (like Release Candidates) are uploaded to Testing
> PPA [1]
> 2) final version packages are uploaded to Testing and Unstable [2]
> 3) Stable PPA can contain older version [3]
>
> For user who want to help with testing experimental packages: please use
> Testing PPA otherwise use Unstable (if you prefer up-to-date
> version) or Stable PPA (you prefer stability - slightly older versions).
>
> Martin
>
> [1] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ubuntugis-testing
> [2] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ubuntugis-unstable
> [3] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
>
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