Alex, I understand your concern and I admit it would be a good thing to put spatialiate 2.3.1 in the stable PPA rather than 2.4.0 rc. I'm to check this as soon as I can.
Please tell me your launchpad username. I'm going to set you as an allowed uploader. regards, Alan On November 24, 2010 07:24:00 pm Alex Mandel wrote: > I'll test GeoDjango with Spatialite RC from the repo this weekend. I'm > mostly concerned about known bugs in the new features of spatialite and > underlying changes to sqlite itself since I'm working right now on > developing some potential sites for deployment on Ubuntu LTS. > I believe spatialite 2.4 requires sqlite3 > 3.7.x but LTS ships with > 3.6.x series and there big differences in features between those (RTree, > WAL, how a spatial db is initialized), or at least that the author is > building against 3.7.x series. > > As for gpsprune, yes my ppa has ubuntugis-unstable ppa as a dependency, > though I'm pretty sure that gpsprune as a simple java app isn't using > any of them. Looking at the dependency list appears to confirm that; jre > and a java metadata lib. > http://activityworkshop.net/software/prune/ > Basic story it's a gps data filtering tool. The author expressed > interest in getting it onto the next OSGeo-Live disc which is why I > grabbed the maverick package from upstream and built it for Lucid. > > Thanks, > Alex > > On 11/24/2010 09:37 AM, Alan Boudreault wrote: > > I agree that RCs (perhaps excepting grass) should stay in unstable. > > However, it would be nice to know if there are real issues in > > qgis/geodjango with spatialite 2.4 rc2 before rebuilding packages in the > > stable ppa. Do you think you could test that? I'm also uncertain if it's > > a good thing to downgrade the spatialite package in the repo. But if > > there are issues, we'll do it. In the future, we will avoid to put RCs > > in stable. > > > > About gpsprune, have added ubuntugis unstable PPA as dependency in your > > ppa? If not, it would be useful to recompile your gpsprune package with > > the ubuntugis dependencies and retest it. (btw, I have absolutely what > > gpsprune is and what its dependencies are) > > > > Thanks > > Alan > > > > On November 23, 2010 05:11:05 pm Alex Mandel 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. I would upgrade to spatialite 2.4 RC but I'm not > >> sure that plays nice with GeoDjango yet. > >> > >> So under my idea > >> Stable would have 2.3.0 or 2.3.1, QGIS 1.5(Could be upgraded after we > >> know 1.6 is safe) > >> Testing would also have 2.3.1, QGIS 1.6 > >> Unstable would have 2.4 RC x > >> > >> That way in testing there would be a nice reliable set of QGIS, gdal, > >> spatialite etc that are known to be fairly good and unstable would have > >> more cutting edge stuff. I realize maverick included spatialite 2.4RC > >> and think that may have actually been a mistake since the author admits > >> it's a bit buggy (not to say 2.3.x series doesn't have it's issues). But > >> more importantly some underlying changes could cause issues for QGIS, > >> GeoDjango etc. In summary having some slightly older version no longer > >> available in Debian or Ubuntu might actually be a + to the everyday user > >> if the distro jumps the gun on an app(in stable of course). > >> > >> This needs a little fine tuning obviously since GRASS tends to have > >> really long release cycles and maybe could be summed as the "testing" > >> ppa has the last known stable release. > >> > >> Any thoughts? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Alex > >> > >> PS: I'm more than willing to help package, just still new at it. Looks > >> like gpsprune for Lucid worked and I would love to have that copied to > >> ubuntugis. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> UbuntuGIS mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu > >> http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki > > _______________________________________________ > UbuntuGIS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu > http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki -- Alan Boudreault Mapgears http://www.mapgears.com
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