Hi, I took liberty to forward opinion about PPA naming from GRASS ML. The name for unstable PPA is simply confusing (moreover with combination of testing PPA used for experimental packages - especially for Debian users). Could be that I missed discussion about PPA naming, anyway current names do not respect real usage of PPAs in my eyes.
And I want to express again big thanks (especially to Angelos) for making ubuntugis project alive! Martin ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Blumentrath, Stefan <[email protected]> Date: 2016-09-16 13:12 GMT+02:00 Subject: RE: [GRASS-dev] ubuntu gis policy To: Martin Landa <[email protected]>, GRASS developers list <[email protected]> Hei Martin, Do you have any chance to influence the naming of the PPAs? As recently also discussed on the QGIS mailinglist, packages from a repository named "unstable" can get blocked by system administrators (who not necessarily will take the time to try to understand what is behind all applications), regardless if I as a user tell them that "unstable" actually means "current release"... Would be nice to have a more admin-friendly name there... Cheers Stefan -----Original Message----- From: grass-dev [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin Landa Sent: 16. september 2016 13:03 To: GRASS users list <[email protected]>; GRASS developers list <[email protected]> Subject: [GRASS-dev] ubuntu gis policy Hi all, recently ubuntugis maintainers changed their policy. This means that currently is used this workflow: OSGeoLive nightly --> UbuntuGIS Testing --> UbuntuGIS Unstable --> UbuntuGIS Stable What does it means for GRASS? 1) experimental packages (like Release Candidates) are uploaded to Testing PPA [1] 2) final version packages are uploaded to Testing and Unstable [2] 3) Stable PPA can contain older version [3] For user who want to help with testing experimental packages: please use Testing PPA otherwise use Unstable (if you prefer up-to-date version) or Stable PPA (you prefer stability - slightly older versions). Martin [1] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ubuntugis-testing [2] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ubuntugis-unstable [3] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ppa -- Martin Landa http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Landa http://gismentors.cz/mentors/landa _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev -- Martin Landa http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Landa http://gismentors.cz/mentors/landa _______________________________________________ UbuntuGIS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki
