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

[Angelos Tzotsos]

On 10/28/2016 03:30 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> 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
>

The Xenial unstable packages have been moved to stable. We can do 
rebuilds for Trusty if needed.

Best,
Angelos


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