[Ubuntu] Moving packages from Unstable to Stable (Trusty)

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 10/28/2016 01:30 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> On 10/28/2016 01:58 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>> On 10/28/2016 12:43 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>>> Looks like there is a demand to do the same package moving for Xenial
>>> too, so unless someone has an objection to that, I would like to move
>>> the packages to stable in the next 48 hours. Actually doing this for
>>> Xenial is easier since there are no packages for this release in stable
>>> until today.
>> No objection from me.
>>
>> Care may need to be taken to not copy all packages at once, but stage
>> these for various transitions. Because if the new core library packages
>> (proj/geotiff/geos/spatialite/gdal/etc) are not built and installed in
>> the PPA yet, the other packages will build with the old versions.
>>
>> It may be wise to stage this is ubuntugis-testing first to work out the
>> issues involved with the several transitions. I can setup transition
>> trackers for those to help get an overview of the various transitions,
>> although I'm currently busy packaging GRASS 7.2.0-RC1, but should have
>> time for that later this weekend.
> 
> Just noticed that even if we deleted all packages from Testing,
> Launchpad keeps them in build history, so I cannot copy the packages
> there for a rebuild, this causes an error. We will need to bump build
> versions to all packages...
> 
> Perhaps we should consider to delete the Testing ppa and re-create it so
> that we do not have any build history from the "experimental" days.

Recreating the -testing PPA will cause a delay because we'll need to
request the increased storage to 8 GB again.

Doing explicit rebuilds is a bit unfortunate due to the labour cost, but
it is a good sanity check to get the order of packages right.

After I'm done with GRASS 7.2.0-RC1 I'll have a look at what the move
from -unstable to -stable involve to see what we need to keep in mind
transition wise.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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