Hi Ben, thanks for the clarification.
Andreas. On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 04:48:21PM +0800, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > Andreas, > > unsupported in the GeoTools context means bugs will not be fixed. It > does not mean that the module will FTBFS or that test failure is > permitted. > > Some unsupported modules have enough users that they are included in > the build by popular demand. The main GeoTools continuous > integration build includes those modules activated by -Dall. > http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/build/maven/tips.html > > Unsupported modules are those that have not yet qualified for > supported status or have been demoted because they have no > maintainer. > http://docs.geotools.org/latest/developer/procedures/supported.html > > While an unsupported module's unit tests continue to pass, it can > continue in the build until it is superseded or its unit tests do > not survive refactoring or maintenance. > > For a module to be included in a release, even an unsupported > module, it must build from source and its tests must pass. > > Kind regards, > Ben. > > On 16/07/14 14:14, Andreas Tille wrote: > >Hi, > > > >On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 10:03:53AM +0800, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > >>Some GeoTools unsupported jars are included in standard releases. > > > >As I told before I'm not a GIS expert - so please take my advise which > >basically comes from a Debian packaging point of view with a grain of > >salt. Perhaps the name "unsupported" is badly choosen? But can you > >please be more verbose about what should be considered as "standard > >releases". > > > >>I > >>recommend that Ubuntu include those jars; they are those included in > >>the build with the -Dall property. The the unsupported/pom.xml for > >>details. > > > >I could imagine a split into different binary packages, say for instance > > > > geotools and geotools-unsupported > > > >I guess there is some reason why upstream makes this distinction and I'm > >personally hesitating to support something (on our own?) in > >Debian/Ubuntu if upstream does not. > > > >Kind regards > > > > Andreas. > > > > -- > Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]> > Software Engineer > CSIRO Mineral Resources Flagship > Australian Resources Research Centre > -- http://fam-tille.de _______________________________________________ UbuntuGIS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki
