[Ubuntu] QGis 3 on UbuntuGIS PPA

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 10/30/18 6:51 PM, Alex M wrote:
> Ubuntugis has 2 major repos:
> Stable - generally older versions of everything in case you need them,
> want LTR super long or need support for aging releases of Ubuntu.
> Unstable - mostly the latest version possible, except QGIS which is
> usually an LTR release (I forget why this happened). Also has support
> for older distros.

UbuntuGIS has the QGIS LTR version because it uses the packaging
maintained by the Debian GIS team, which only packages the LTR.

> Note: OSGeoLive packaging, and Debian packaging both feed into Ubuntugis
> directly helping to keep all the packages up to date.

UbuntuGIS is not up to date. UbuntuGIS gets updated packages when they
get copied from the OSGeoLive PPA. When OSGeoLive has not updated the
packages in their PPA like for the current release (the first based on
bionic), there are no updates for the UbuntuGIS PPA either.

In the past there were more contributors actively backporting packages
from Debian GIS to the UbuntuGIS PPA and when Debian GIS stalled
actively updated packages in the UbuntuGIS PPA, but those days are long
gone.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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