[Ubuntu] GRASS 7 packages in UbuntuGIS

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

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On 03-08-15 11:13, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 03-08-15 09:05, Ivan Mincik wrote:
>> On 01.08.2015 22:26, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Ivan Mincik wrote:
>>>> * what are the plans for GRASS 7 packaging for other Ubuntu 
>>>> versions in UbuntuGIS Unstable. Can I help with something ?
> 
>>> Please go ahead. I've refrained from doing uploading of most 
>>> packages due to a lack of time and I prefered having updated 
>>> packages in utopic/vivid universe rather than in ubuntugis.
> 
>> Yes, having updated packages in official Ubuntu is the most 
>> important. So, the most important missing part is moving GRASS 7 
>> from experimental to unstable. Am I right ?
> 
> Yes, but that requires disabling the QGIS plugin that only works
> with GRASS 7 in QGIS >= 2.10. Or getting the GRASS 7 changes
> backported to QGIS 2.8 LTR.
> 
> After discussion with MarkusN, I'm tempted to ignore the 
> qgis-plugin-grass users and switch to GRASS 7 in Debian.

PS. The grass package in Debian could use a new (co-)maintainer that
actually uses it to be in a better position to decide its future.

I put off working on the grass package because it was badly maintained
for some time, but had to act for GRASS 7 and the breakage this
introduced in the GDAL GRASS plugin which is my primary concern for
grass. It must not hinder the GDAL transitions. Nor must it hinder
QGIS, my second concern.

So, is anyone willing to take up maintenance of the official Debian
grass package? I'm not serving its users very well.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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