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

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 10/28/2016 04:18 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> 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.
> 
> The Xenial unstable packages have been moved to stable. We can do
> rebuilds for Trusty if needed.

Transition trackers are at:

 http://linuxminded.nl/tmp/pkg-grass-transitions/ubuntugis-stable/trusty/
 http://linuxminded.nl/tmp/pkg-grass-transitions/ubuntugis-stable/xenial/

The xenial ones are looking good so far, and trusty doesn't have those
packages yet.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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