[Ubuntu] Stable update

[Angelos Tzotsos]

On 04/25/2016 11:45 PM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 10:04 PM, Alex M <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
>> Historically we haven't done a great job of keeping stable very
>> relevant, but people running servers in production really ought to be
>> using it and not unstable. Maybe a clearer policy on when things should
>> move to stable needs to be made (it is ok for some packages to be the
>> same version as unstable).
> With quite DebianGIS quite up-to-date, Ubuntu already has rather
> recent versions of most packages. I think stable becomes perhaps even
> less relevant. For non-LTS releases I think we should not use it
> (well, never say never). For LTS releases, I think the policy of
> copying whatever gets on OSGeo live after the release is quite a good
> policy. It gets a lot of testing.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Johan
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+1 to rename testing to experimental. Actually I have started building 
everything based on gdal 2.0 there already.
Also, +1 for a policy to copy everything from OSGeoLive after release.

Best,
Angelos

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