[Ubuntu] QGIS 2.18 LTR in UbuntuGIS

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 09/06/2017 11:40 AM, Martin Landa wrote:
> are there any plans to include new QGIS LTR (2.18) in UbuntuGIS. Both
> Expr [1] and Unstable [2] show QGIS 2.14.

Probably not, especially not in the short term.

The package in Debian will remain on 2.14 as long as possible. In
December 2.18.15 will replace 2.14.20 in the qgis.org long-term repo
[0], and the package in Debian will switch to 2.18 too.

This all assumes that Qt4 is not removed from Debian in the mean time.
The Qt4 removal may force the inclusion of QGIS 3.x in Debian for its
Qt5 support before 3.4.4 replaces 2.18.27 as the LTR in the long-term repo.

As long as the Debian source package is used for OSGeo-Live & UbuntuGIS
the versions included there will follow the qgis.org LTR repo.

[0]
http://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/development/roadmap.html#release-schedule

Kind Regards,

Bas

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