On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Alex Mandel <[email protected]> wrote: > So I ran into an interesting quagmire of dependencies. > The moral of the story, I would like to propose that RC candidates of > apps stay in "unstable" and not trickle into "stable" and maybe not even > into "testing" (this could be a little looser). > > Particularly the issue I ran into is that spatialite 2.3.1 isn't in the > repos at all, Lucid has 2.3.0 but it seems stuck on geos 3.1.0 which is > making my QGIS crash.
Then I guess this version of geos or qgis should be be fixed, regardless of in which repository they are. This is imho not really a dependency problem. If there are 2 different incompatible versions of a library then they should have a different soname and a different packagename. If it is just a bug then it should be fixed. My proposal for 'stable' would be: the version which is in the current debian testing repository (in times of debian freeze perhaps packages which are +10 days in debian unstable can be considered as well). The 'stable' repository should get some long time support, and I guess that this is the best way to provide that. Johan _______________________________________________ UbuntuGIS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki
