[Ubuntu] Proposal - Cleaning up dependencies/repos

[Johan Van de Wauw]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Alex Mandel
<tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
> So I ran into an interesting quagmire of dependencies.
> The moral of the story, I would like to propose that RC candidates of
> apps stay in "unstable" and not trickle into "stable" and maybe not even
> into "testing" (this could be a little looser).
>
> Particularly the issue I ran into is that spatialite 2.3.1 isn't in the
> repos at all, Lucid has 2.3.0 but it seems stuck on geos 3.1.0 which is
> making my QGIS crash.

Then I guess this version of geos or qgis should be be fixed,
regardless of in which repository they are. This is imho not really a
dependency problem. If there are 2 different incompatible versions of
a library then they should have a different soname and a different
packagename. If it is just a bug then it should be fixed.

My proposal for 'stable' would be: the version which is in the current
debian testing repository (in times of debian freeze perhaps packages
which are +10 days in debian unstable can be considered as well). The
'stable' repository should get some long time support, and I guess
that this is the best way to provide that.

Johan