Hi Sebastiaan, On Thu, 06. Aug 2015 at 11:56:23 +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > On 06-08-15 09:40, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote: > > In debian there currently is no GRASS 7 and hence the packaging was > > not updated. It will once something breaks... > Is that an invitation to move GRASS 7 from Debian experimental to > unstable so that it breaks the QGIS builds?
Well, I'm not going to build GRASS 7 myself. So unless it gets in my way, I'll try to ignore that it's exist. Ok, too late for that - but I like the idea ;) And the unstable build is currently broken anyway, because of the gcc-5 transition. > That would make the GRASS community happy, they have been complaining > that the lack of support for GRASS 7 in QGIS (2.8 LTR specifically) is > holding back their software. > I would like to get rid of GRASS 6 in Debian and switch to GRASS 7, but > haven't done that yet because qgis-plugin-grass users complained that the > lack of GRASS support in QGIS was unacceptable. I'd say move ahead. Even it if breaks qgis-plugin-grass. IMHO that's why it's called unstable: be prepared to loose something for a while here and there for the benefit of having the latest stuff working for most of the time. > Now that GRASS 7 support in QGIS >= 2.10 is available, I think we > should make the switch in Debian and suggest users of the qgis plugin > to use the upstream QGIS packages for its GRASS 7 support. Does it now? I thought that was going to appear in 2.12. My understanding was, that the GRASS plugin does not yet support GRASS7 - currently only the GRASS7 provider (and in turn QGIS browser support) works and processing supports GRASS7 (although until very recently - and oddly widely unnoticed - it apparently didn't even call it [1]). So unless that actually changed, I'd be disabling qgis-plugin-grass on distributions where GRASS6 disappears and stick with it otherwise. Jürgen [1] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/2015-August/033076.html -- 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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