[Ubuntu] Fwd: [GRASS-dev] ubuntu gis policy

[Randal Hale]

I'm one of the guys who was commenting on the confusion. Someone 
commented that the naming is in keeping with Ubuntu policy. Which 
probably for the Sys Admin crowd is perfect. We've got a weird blend of 
Users who want software BUT (and I didn't up until this last thread) 
understand the reasoning behind the naming. It is confusing. I don't 
know if something on the PPA explaining it is warranted OR a name change 
OR something on the package websites.

Anyway - Yes - 500 Cheers for Angelos and everyone else involved in 
keeping this alive.

Randy

On 09/16/2016 08:37 AM, Martin Landa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I took liberty to forward opinion about PPA naming from GRASS ML.  The
> name for unstable PPA is simply confusing (moreover with combination
> of testing PPA used for experimental packages - especially for Debian
> users). Could be that I missed discussion about PPA naming, anyway
> current names do not respect real usage of PPAs in my eyes.
>
> And I want to express again big thanks (especially to Angelos) for
> making ubuntugis project alive! Martin
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Blumentrath, Stefan <Stefan.Blumentrath at nina.no>
> Date: 2016-09-16 13:12 GMT+02:00
> Subject: RE: [GRASS-dev] ubuntu gis policy
> To: Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>, GRASS developers list
> <grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
>
>
> Hei Martin,
>
> Do you have any chance to influence the naming of the PPAs?
>
> As recently also discussed on the QGIS mailinglist, packages from a
> repository named "unstable" can get blocked by system administrators
> (who not necessarily will take the time to try to understand what is
> behind all applications), regardless if I as a user tell them that
> "unstable" actually means "current release"...
>
> Would be nice to have a more admin-friendly name there...
>
> Cheers
> Stefan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: grass-dev [mailto:grass-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf
> Of Martin Landa
> Sent: 16. september 2016 13:03
> To: GRASS users list <grass-user at lists.osgeo.org>; GRASS developers
> list <grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: [GRASS-dev] ubuntu gis policy
>
> Hi all,
>
> recently ubuntugis maintainers changed their policy. This means that
> currently is used this workflow:
>
> OSGeoLive nightly --> UbuntuGIS Testing --> UbuntuGIS Unstable -->
> UbuntuGIS Stable
>
> What does it means for GRASS?
>
> 1) experimental packages (like Release Candidates) are uploaded to
> Testing PPA [1]
> 2) final version packages are uploaded to Testing and Unstable [2]
> 3) Stable PPA can contain older version [3]
>
> For user who want to help with testing experimental packages: please
> use Testing PPA otherwise use Unstable (if you prefer up-to-date
> version) or Stable PPA (you prefer stability - slightly older versions).
>
> Martin
>
> [1] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ubuntugis-testing
> [2] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ubuntugis-unstable
> [3] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
>
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> Martin Landa
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