[Ubuntu] Stable update

[Worth Lutz]

Sebastiaan,

Thanks for the info.  I'll delve into it and see if I can understand it.

You mention dealing with the version in Ubuntu and the version in 
UbuntuGIS. This is always something I have not understood.

I've never understood the policies of how the versions come downstream 
from Debian to Ubuntu. What updates get made by DebianGIS? Do these flow 
down to Ubuntu? Or are Debian and Ubuntu stuck at a certain revision and 
a ppa like UbuntuGIS is used to provide updated packages?

I've stumbled through this as a user and not understood the process and 
sometimes cannot get the latest fixes.

I apologize for all the questions.  Maybe the answers are in the info 
you referenced. If so, don't waste your time answering. :-)

*Worth Lutz*


On 4/29/2016 7:49 AM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 04/29/2016 01:32 PM, Worth Lutz wrote:
>> I'm willing to help but know nothing about how to build a package. I'm
>> mainly a consumer of packages.
>>
>> If someone could point me to a tutorial, I'll experiment some and see
>> what I can learn.
> The git packaging workflow should help get you started:
>
>   https://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/policy/packaging.html#git-packaging
>
> What packages have your interest? I suggest to start with those packages
> and rebuild the latest package revisions from the Debian GIS git
> repository for your Ubuntu release.
>
> Beware of library packages such as gdal, geos, spatialite, spatialindex,
> postgis, etc, these are non-trivial to maintain because you need to test
> all reverse dependencies when with new versions of those libraries.
> Handling such transitions properly is essential to not break the inter
> dependencies of the packages in the PPA. You also need to deal with the
> version in Ubuntu itself verses the one in UbuntuGIS.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Bas
>

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