Hi Ian,

On Wed, 21. Oct 2015 at 16:04:35 -0400, ircwaves wrote:
> Question first: Why is the UbuntuGIS qgis package using the dpkg
> version epoch at the moment?

Because the version numbering of the builds changed so that it works when you
upgrade from a distribution.
 

> Empirically seeing that the fix wasn't there in the version on
> UbuntuGIS, I grabbed the source, build the debs, tested that the fix
> worked, and added a local repo sources.list.d.

We have ubuntugis based repositories for both the LTR and the latest release at
qgis.org([0]).  The version in ubuntugis itself is replaced by this since the
introduction of LTR as it could only have either version.


Jürgen

[0] http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#debian-ubuntu

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