[Ubuntu] Plan for QGIS and GRASS versions, etc...

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Sebastiaan,

On Thu, 06. Aug 2015 at 11:56:23 +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 06-08-15 09:40, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
> > In debian there currently is no GRASS 7 and hence the packaging was
> > not updated.  It will once something breaks...
 
> Is that an invitation to move GRASS 7 from Debian experimental to
> unstable so that it breaks the QGIS builds?

Well, I'm not going to build GRASS 7 myself.  So unless it gets in my way, I'll
try to ignore that it's exist.  Ok, too late for that - but I like the idea ;)

And the unstable build is currently broken anyway, because of the gcc-5
transition.


> That would make the GRASS community happy, they have been complaining
> that the lack of support for GRASS 7 in QGIS (2.8 LTR specifically) is
> holding back their software.
 
> I would like to get rid of GRASS 6 in Debian and switch to GRASS 7, but
> haven't done that yet because qgis-plugin-grass users complained that the
> lack of GRASS support in QGIS was unacceptable.

I'd say move ahead.  Even it if breaks qgis-plugin-grass.  IMHO that's why it's
called unstable: be prepared to loose something for a while here and there for
the benefit of having the latest stuff working for most of the time.


> Now that GRASS 7 support in QGIS >= 2.10 is available, I think we
> should make the switch in Debian and suggest users of the qgis plugin
> to use the upstream QGIS packages for its GRASS 7 support.

Does it now?

I thought that was going to appear in 2.12.  My understanding was, that the
GRASS plugin does not yet support GRASS7 - currently only the GRASS7 provider
(and in turn QGIS browser support) works and processing supports GRASS7
(although until very recently - and oddly widely unnoticed - it apparently
didn't even call it [1]).

So unless that actually changed, I'd be disabling qgis-plugin-grass on
distributions where GRASS6 disappears and stick with it otherwise.


Jürgen
 
[1] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/2015-August/033076.html

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