[Ubuntu] ​Alioth.debian.org and gdal-grass package

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi Bas, this would probably require I get commit access to many of the
Alioth git repositories. Is that a problem?

Best,
Angelos

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 7:31 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl>
wrote:

> On 08/16/2017 06:21 PM, Martin Landa wrote:
> > I wonder whether gdal-grass git repo [1] is currently used for
> > managing UbuntuGIS packages. Eg. ubuntu/xenial branch contains GDAL
> > driver version 2.1.0, while Unstable PPA offers 2.2.1 (Stable 2.1.3) The
> builds I did for UbuntuGIS use the git repository, those provided
> by Angelos don't.
>
> He really needs to start maintaining the packaging for OSGeo-Live and
> UbuntuGIS in the pkg-grass git repo as well, but changing ones way of
> working is a slow process.
>
> By not using the git repositories there is no peer-review of the
> packaging and issues like the recent qgis issue happen and are not
> caught sooner. Nor are the tools able to easy the backporting work by
> keep track of changes for backports.
>
> > I also wonder how to manage more PPAs (UbuntuGIS stable and unstable)
> > in one git branch. For example currently gdal-grass package in Stable
> > is 2.1.3 while in Unstable 2.2.1. Is there any policy for that? BTW,
> > currently I am using grass git repo [2] for managing Unstable PPA.
> > Should I use similar approach for gdal-grass repo?
>
> There should a branch for each distribution (trusty, xenial, etc), these
> packages should be uploaded to the unstable or experimental PPA, and
> copied from there to the other PPAs once its ready.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Bas
>
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