[Ubuntu] unstable: providing rcs

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 09/08/2016 01:21 PM, Martin Landa wrote:
> I remember that there was a discussion about that, unfortunately I
> cannot find it. So sorry for asking again. My question is about
> providing RCs packages of GRASS via ubungugis PPA. My idea is to use
> unstable PPA for providing RCs.
> 
> * when RC is released it goes into unstable
> * when final version is released it goes into unstable and testing
> 
> Make this approach sense to you or you prefer to provide RCs via
> private PPA like [1]. Thanks for answer, Martin

Release candidates should not go into ubuntugis-unstable in my opinion,
just like they generally don't go into Debian unstable.

The should be uploaded to ubuntugis-experimental like they are uploaded
to Debian experimental until the final release (assuming no transition
is required).

The ubuntugis-testing repository is currently abused for this purpose,
but it should be renamed to ubuntugis-experimental because it no longer
matches the Debian package transition flow which the UbuntuGIS PPAs
mirrored:

 [experimental ->] unstable -> testing -> stable

Breaking users systems with pre-releases uploaded to ubuntugis-unstable
may not be a bad idea though, to encourage users to not use it for
production purposes who should stick to stable releases on their systems.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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