Hi Randal, On Wed, 05. Aug 2015 at 22:04:11 -0400, Randal Hale wrote: > I like the way Ubuntu lines up with Debian - I'm just fighting the > urge to switch to the QGIS repos.
As far as I'm concerned that's what you should do. We build packages based on the plain distributions and ubuntugis unstable. We even have nightlies of the latest release, the long term release and master based on the plain distributions and ubuntugis unstable. All are built automatically and in the same way - ie. without launchpad (which only supports ubuntu). So this is partly to get launchpad out of the equation, but mainly because we have more than one (or two) repositories. > I'm on 2.8.1 on my main machine. I've not been notified that 2.10 is > ready...I'm slightly concerned I've missed something where I need to update > my repo for 2.10 or to get 2.8.2. I switched my laptop to 2.10 (qgis repos). > I'm pretty sure 2.10 isn't ready on unstable and that's fine - I'm just > getting worried I've missed something. Well, that's also a problem. I consider 2.10.1 the latest release, while others consider 2.8.3 the latest "real" release and 2.10.1 some sort of development version. Currently 2.8.x tells you that 2.10 is out if you check the version in the help menu. > I would love to be able to have both 2.10 and 2.8.x installed - I'm pretty > sure that would cause someone more headaches than I wish on anyone. That could be done. I do it on OSGeo4W, but I didn't see enough motivation to do it for the debs. > The grass breakages are a pain....but I'm hoping it gets better. I know it's > a new release. The OSGEO4W release on windows always makes me a bit envious > of that side of life. Well, look at the 64bit build in OSGeo4W - it still ships with GRASS 6.4.3. The GRASS project only maintains the 32bit builds (of 6 and 7 - also including nightlies), but didn't yet get to build a 64bit version (6.4.3 is still my initial build from 2013 - I provided my patches and notes back then, but apparently they also have too many branches on too many platforms to make it an priority too). So in 32bit you can install GRASS 6 and 7 in parallel and QGIS supports both of them (not at the same time, but you get shortcuts to start QGIS with either version) and on 64bit you only have one. But both have the GRASS plugin currently available only with GRASS 6. In debian there currently is no GRASS 7 and hence the packaging was not updated. It will once something breaks... Jürgen -- Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-31 Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50 Software Engineer D-26506 Norden http://www.norbit.de QGIS release manager (PSC) Germany IRC: jef on FreeNode
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