[QGIS-Developer] Question about debian packages version policy on https://qgis.org/

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi David,

On Fri, 01. Mar 2019 at 13:54:55 +0100, David Marteau wrote:
> On https://www.qgis.org <https://www.qgis.org/> it is said that the version
> available on https://qgis.org/debian <https://qgis.org/debian> is the 3.6.x
> but actually only the 3.4.4 is the latest  available on debian stretch. 

> The 3.6.x is available only on 'buster' which is the next debian release.   
 
> Is that on purpose ?

Yes.  See footnote [4] on

https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#debian-ubuntu

QGIS 3.6 requires Qt 5.9.  As stretch has 5.7 the latest qgis release is no
longer supported on stretch.


> Furthemore, the ltr has been updated to 3.4.5 but the 3.4.5  has not been
> made available as 'release' (i.e  available on https://qgis.org/debian
> <https://qgis.org/debian>), is there a reason for that ?

debian/ has 3.6 now.  3.4.5 is in debian-ltr/.



Jürgen

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