[Ubuntu] QGIS: unsupported SAGA version after last update -- ubuntugis-unstable channel

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Domenico,

Ubuntu 18.04 actually contains saga 2.3 in the universe repository. I'm
currently on holidays without access to a ubuntu machine, but you could try
sth like
apt install -t universe saga (someone with a bionic around, please check).
This should force the old version.
It was actually in discussion with QGis that the decision was made to make
7.3 the new LTR version. It should be quite easy to make processing support
this version, most modules would probably still work anyway.

Kind Regards,
Johan

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 20:43 Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl>
wrote:

> On 7/23/19 8:27 PM, Domenico Mozzanica wrote:
> > Please, could you check this problem?
>
> No. Such is the fate of processing plugins.
>
> SAGA 2.3.x was hopelessly outdated, and freezing that branch and dub it
> LTS didn't really work out. It didn't break qgis often, but it also
> didn't backport fixes to keep up with changes in the system. See how
> much grief it caused in Fedora for example.
>
> If projects when their processing plugin to not break when their project
> is upgraded, they need to provide a stable API that QGIS can use. If
> your project cannot do that, it shouldn't be a QGIS plugin.
>
> The SAGA update is required to unblock to transition to PROJ 6, which is
> much more important than keeping the QGIS plugin working. It sucks for
> QGIS users of the SAGA plugin, you should voice your complaints to SAGA
> upstream.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Bas
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