On 05/06/2013 03:50 PM, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote: > Hi Ivan, > > On Mon, 06. May 2013 at 14:58:55 +0200, Ivan Mincik wrote: >> I wonder if ubuntugis PPA could be a recommended and only one repository >> for QGIS 2.0 on Ubuntu instead of distribution packaged version and >> package from 'http://qgis.org/debian'. > > Recommended: ok. > Only: why? > > I don't see the problem with a less intrusive version (ie. qgis on plain > ubuntu) and a more intrusive version (ie. qgis on ubuntugis).
Ubuntu distribution packages stick with 1.7 version which is obsolete. > > Switching between the same versions from different repositories might be a > problem, but I suppose that doesn't happen often. > > Maintaining both versions wasn't a big problem in the past, so I don't expect > it > be come one in future. Maybe a bug fixing could be easier when you deal for example with lesser GDAL versions. Also when a time goes on distribution libraries goes older and more version dependent workarounds must be provided (for example GDAL 1.10 has better support for PostGIS raster and SpatiaLite) > > The packages are only built on release, with the current dependencies at that > point - and only updated, when manually when necessary. But that also applies > to both repositories. > PPA build could be less error prone than self made PBuilder. I am often not sure if my pbuilder updated build deps when building packages depending each other. > >> What needs to be done ?: > >> 1. Fine tuned Debian 'control' file to prevent conflicting installation of >> packages after upgrading from distribution packages to UbuntuGIS >> (this is the case for example in GDAL) > > 0. Report those problems. Yes, I am going to fix them in my PPA and send a patch. But I am not sure where reports for PPAs should be submitted. > > >> 2. More clearly described relation between ubuntugis-stable and >> ubuntugis-unstable repositories (when the packages move from unstable to >> stable ...) > > Yes, that would be nice to know - I only upload to ubuntugis-unstable ;) What I am missing for PPAs is some kind of wiki where these informations could be placed. Jurgen, thanks for your Debian/Ubuntu packaging. -- Ivan Mincik _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
