[QGIS-Developer] Good news: next Ubuntu version shipping with gdal3/proj6

[Bas Couwenberg]

On 2020-02-18 11:00, Mathieu Pellerin wrote:
> Any plan to update QGIS to 3.10? 3.4 reaches it's end of life in the 
> coming
> few days.

Yes, but this will probably be too late for focal, as recently discussed 
on the Debian GIS list:

  https://lists.debian.org/debian-gis/2020/01/msg00000.html

QGIS 3.10.3 (the first 3.10 in the Long-Term Repo which the package in 
Debian tracks) is (now) scheduled for release on the 21st and the Debian 
import freeze for focal is on the 27th. I may not be able to get QGIS 
3.10 into Debian unstable (from which Ubuntu syncs by default) before 
the import freeze, e.g. if it takes more than a few days for the FTP 
masters to review the package in the NEW queue. Another possibility is 
that the build fails on certain architectures which will prevent the 
package in Ubuntu from moving out of the proposed pocket. The 3.10.3 
release was scheduled on the 27th before, as mentioned on the debian-gis 
list, that would have made it pretty much impossible to get it into 
focal.

Because there is no one that actively maintains the geospatial packages 
in Ubuntu, QGIS and JOSM users should use the packages provided from 
their upstream repos instead which are actively updated with new 
releases.

Kind Regards,

Bas