[Ubuntu] Re: Packages for Maverick (10.10)?

[Timmie]

> IMHO GRASS 6.5svn is mainly for power-users and developers testing things
> before backporting them to the stable branch, and it is much more useful to
> end-users to package nightly builds of the stable 6.4svn branch (access to
> all the latest bugfixes). If a development branch is packaged, my fear is
> that it will be used, and people will expect it to always work and not
> destroy their data. (ok, slightly over-dramatic, but you get no guarantees
> if you decide to ride the slicing edge.)
> 
> but of course this is open source, actually 6.5svn is pretty stable, and
> you are free to package whatever code interests you..
Thanks for your advice.
Well, this dates back when 6.4.x wasn't offically released.

My main interest is to have a stable version with latest bug fixes and features.

Additionally, I would like to test GRASS 7.