[GRASS-user] up-to-date packages in UbuntuGIS

Short sidenotes from a basic Ubuntu-User:

1.) It is a great step to have repositories for GRASS and straight forward to stream these with Ubuntu-GIS.
     Thanks Martin! I am sure this will be of benefit for many GRASS-beginners!

2.) I upgraded Ubuntu from 15.04 (vivid) to 15.10 (wily) recently. And after Upgrade found out that ubuntugis-unstable
     did not support wily, yet. At least "wily" did not appear on the supported versions on this side:
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ubuntugis-unstable.
     This was pretty frustrating and luckily some days later, wily was included. Otherwise I might have fallen
     back to standard packages of Ubuntu for GRASS or a messy system of unsupported packages.
     This as comment in terms of ideal speed and frequencies of releases.

Patrick

On 19.01.2016 15:19, grass-user-request@lists.osgeo.org wrote:

>Dear Ubuntu users,
>
>recently I have stopped producing GRASS stable packages for GRASS
>Launchpad PPA [1] (for those how are still using this PPA, uninstall
>`grass7` package and remove this PPA from the source list). There is
>only one alive PPA used for daily builds [2] - `grass-daily` package.
>
>Some days ago I started producing up-to-date packages for UbuntuGIS
>(unstable) [3]. So please switch to this repo if you are using Ubuntu
>when installing GRASS.
>
>Martin
>
>[1]https://launchpad.net/~grass/+archive/ubuntu/grass-stable
>[2]https://launchpad.net/~grass/+archive/ubuntu/grass-devel
>[3]https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ubuntugis-unstable

Hi,

2016-01-20 10:11 GMT+01:00 patrick s. <patrick_gis@gmx.net>:

2.) I upgraded Ubuntu from 15.04 (vivid) to 15.10 (wily) recently. And after
Upgrade found out that ubuntugis-unstable
    did not support wily, yet. At least "wily" did not appear on the
supported versions on this side:
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ubuntugis-unstable.
    This was pretty frustrating and luckily some days later, wily was
included. Otherwise I might have fallen
    back to standard packages of Ubuntu for GRASS or a messy system of
unsupported packages.
    This as comment in terms of ideal speed and frequencies of releases.

please post these questions to UbuntuGIS ML. AFAIU they are planning
to upgrade stable/unstable branch from OSGeoLive repos, which would be
big steps. You can see that mainly stable branch is not maintained for
years. From my side, I have uploaded GRASS package for wily to
unstable, here my work ends. The rest is on other UbuntuGIS
maintainers.

Ma

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