[Ubuntu] Handling transitions in UbuntuGIS

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi Bas,

The transitions have been handled manually so far.
Thanks for this tracker, it seems a better way to handle things.

Best,
Angelos

On 07/23/2016 06:59 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> Triggered by the recent spatialite-gui report, I've setup an
> experimental transition tracker for the ubuntugis-unstable PPA to check
> the state of the other packages.
>
> Currently only trusty and xenial are checked, precise is not worth the
> effort IMNSHO:
>
>   http://linuxminded.nl/tmp/pkg-grass-transitions/ubuntugis-unstable/trusty/
>   http://linuxminded.nl/tmp/pkg-grass-transitions/ubuntugis-unstable/xenial/
>
> For trusty seems to need some more rebuilds, xenial is looking good for
> the xenial packages in the PPA.
>
> Unfortunately the ben tool used for the transition trackers, is not able
> to handle the Ubuntu repositories + PPA repo setup well, it can only use
> the Packages files from the PPA, so you don't see the other reverse
> dependencies available in Ubuntu that haven't been rebuild with the
> library package in the PPA.
>
>
> Compare the list of affected packages in the trackers for Debian
> unstable, Ubuntu trusty & xenial (with the 'good' checkbox checked):
>
> * GDAL transition
>
> unstable: http://linuxminded.nl/tmp/pkg-grass-transitions/html/gdal.html
> trusty:
> http://linuxminded.nl/tmp/pkg-grass-transitions/ubuntugis-unstable/trusty/html/gdal.html
> xenial:
> http://linuxminded.nl/tmp/pkg-grass-transitions/ubuntugis-unstable/xenial/html/gdal.html
>
> * GEOS transition
>
> unstable: http://linuxminded.nl/tmp/pkg-grass-transitions/html/geos.html
> trusty:
> http://linuxminded.nl/tmp/pkg-grass-transitions/ubuntugis-unstable/trusty/html/geos.html
> xenial:
> http://linuxminded.nl/tmp/pkg-grass-transitions/ubuntugis-unstable/xenial/html/geos.html
>
> * GRASS transition
>
> unstable: http://linuxminded.nl/tmp/pkg-grass-transitions/html/grass.html
> trusty:
> http://linuxminded.nl/tmp/pkg-grass-transitions/ubuntugis-unstable/trusty/html/grass.html
> xenial:
> http://linuxminded.nl/tmp/pkg-grass-transitions/ubuntugis-unstable/xenial/html/grass.html
>
> Notice how libgdal-grass is missing for xenial for example.
>
> How are transitions in UbuntuGIS handled currently?
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Bas
>


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