Control: retitle -1 unblock: qgis/3.4.5+dfsg-1 On 3/17/19 8:17 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > On 2/24/19 9:23 PM, Bas Couwenberg wrote: >> Because the 2.18 LTR is EOL with the release of QGIS 3.4.5 having the >> latter in buster is probably better than leaving the qgis package at the >> last 2.18.x release (2.18.28). >> >> QGIS 3.4 is the new LTR and switches to Qt5 and Python 3, as such >> the changes since the version in testing are quite large and cannot be >> considered "small, targeted fixes". >> >> While users of the qgis package are unlikely to use the version of the >> package available in stable, and more likely using the latest LTR from >> backports, I think having 3.4.5 in buster is better for users upgrading >> from stretch than leaving them with the EOL 2.18.28 release until the >> package is updated in buster-backports. >> >> Would you approve of moving QGIS 3.4.5 from experimental to unstable and >> allowing it to migrate to tesing for inclusion in buster? >> >> Or should we keep it experimental until after the release, and make the >> newer LTRs available in buster-backports when it hits testing? > > As reported by Lucas Nussbaum in #924833, qgis (2.18.28-2) FTBFS in > unstable due to sip4 (4.19.14+dfsg-1) which was uploaded a couple of > weeks after qgis. > > With 2.18.x being EOL upstream, we cannot rely on upstream to provide a > fix, and I lack the skills for it. > > I'm going to move QGIS 3.4 to unstable so that we at least have a > version of QGIS in unstable that supports SIP 4.19.14. > > If the changes in QGIS 3.4 are deemed to invasive for an unblock, we'll > have to release buster without qgis and deal with lots of unhappy users.
qgis (3.4.5+dfsg-1) has been uploaded to unstable. Please unblock it. The debdiff is 477M (60M gzipped), so not attached. unblock qgis/3.4.5+dfsg-1 Kind Regards, Bas -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1
