[Ubuntu] non-LTS packages

Martin Landa landa.martin at gmail.com
Sun Apr 23 10:34:48 PDT 2017


Hi,

2017-04-23 17:38 GMT+02:00 Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl>:
> There isn't much value for zesty users to add the UbuntuGIS PPAs, there
> is only GRASS. Because there isn't even sufficient manpower to maintain
> the packages for the still supported LTS releases, adding packages for
> non-LTS releases sends the wrong signal.

OK, make sense, I have removed this package from Expr PPA.

> If you want to maintain grass packages for other Ubuntu releases, that
> should be done in the GRASS PPA. Which comes with the downside of users
> likely having to deal with incompatible packages between PPAs when
> they're using more than one.

OK, I will use GRASS PPA for non-LTS packages. Thanks for feedback, Ma

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