Renaming Testing would be fine. No one except testers should ever point to it. The current usage of that repo is to build new versions, make sure all the cross deps build, and then use it to cleanly push to the Unstable repo via the ppa copy tools. This prevents use from breaking unstable when we're waiting for something like the QGIS GRASS Plugin to build correctly.
As for Stable vs Unstable, there are only occasional times when they really differ. That time should be exactly when major new versions of things come out. ie GRASS 6/7, Postgis 1.5/2.x, GDAL 1.x/2.x, QGIS 2.8/2.14 Historically we haven't done a great job of keeping stable very relevant, but people running servers in production really ought to be using it and not unstable. Maybe a clearer policy on when things should move to stable needs to be made (it is ok for some packages to be the same version as unstable). Thanks, Alex On 04/25/2016 12:20 PM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote: > Thanks Angelos for the work. > > I'm in favor of removing testing. If we keep it, we should name it > experimental. > I actually proposed doing so earlier. > > Kind Regards, > Johan > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 9:02 PM, Micha Silver <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> On 04/25/2016 08:26 PM, Randal Hale wrote: >> ------ Original Message ------ Subject: Re: [Ubuntu] Stable update Date: >> Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:26:31 -0400 To: Ubuntu From: Randal Hale >> >> Unstable has always been a bit confusing (at least for me) because we had >> "stable" packages in a unstable repo. Maybe you could do a Stable/Testing or >> Stable/Unstable. We've only ever had one relevant ppa and that has been >> unstable. >> >> "Install your software from the unstable ppa" >> "I don't want unstable software" >> "That's not what it means" >> >> Very true. Two repos should be quite enough. >> >> Randy >> >> On 04/25/2016 01:15 PM, Martin Landa wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> 2016-04-24 22:02 GMT+02:00 Angelos Tzotsos <[email protected]>: >>> >>> >>> For the Testing and Unstable repositories, all Ubuntu EOL releases were >>> also removed from the archives to save space. >> >> >> I wonder if we really need three repos. Probably two repos - stable and >> testing/unstable would be enough. Martin >> _______________________________________________ UbuntuGIS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki
