[Qgis-developer] Possibility of 2.18.6 release shortly?

Nathan Woodrow madmanwoo at gmail.com
Sat Apr 1 02:40:15 PDT 2017


Where's the fun in software if we aren't breaking stuff last minute ;)

On Sat, 1 Apr 2017, 7:38 PM Jürgen E. Fischer <jef at norbit.de> wrote:

> Hi Nyall,
>
> On Sat, 01. Apr 2017 at 12:27:37 +1000, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> > I'm wondering if there's any chance of an immediate follow up to the
> > 2.18.5 release with a quick bug fix release.
>
> Oh no.  Took me until wednesday to cleanup the mess - and now there's even
> more.
>
> > Totally my fault
>
> Get in line ;)
>
> - download.osgeo.org ran out of disc space again (had to move the symbol
> store
>   to make room)
> - I missed to dependency updated after the removal of some python ext-libs
>   after metasearch was updated in the release branches - producing
> uninstable
>   trusty/jessie packages and broken NSIS installers.
> - ubuntugis updated GDAL right after the release, breaking the fresh
>   packages.
> - processing saga support was broken just before the release.
>
> On the positive side a 2.18.6 now could just take the scripts/release.pl
> -point
> run 2.18.5 should have been.
>
> But should we wait a while to see if there's even more?
>
>
> Jürgen
>
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