[Ubuntu] unstable: providing rcs

[Angelos Tzotsos]

As Bas said, we are currently (ab)using "testing" as "experimental" for 
UbuntuGIS.
This means that currently we use this workflow:

OSGeoLive nightly --> UbuntuGIS Testing --> UbuntuGIS Unstable --> 
UbuntuGIS Stable

Please upload new packages to Testing.

Cheers,
Angelos

On 09/08/2016 03:23 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> 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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