[Ubuntu] QGis 3 on UbuntuGIS PPA

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi all,

My plan is to sync DebianGIS and UbuntuGIS in the following weeks.

Cheers,
Angelos

On 10/30/18 8:44 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> 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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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
Charter Member
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos