Re: [DebianGIS] A possible Grass policy for lenny+1

[Hamish <hamish_b@yahoo.com>]

Francesco wrote:
> I'm going to revamp the grass package in order to support 
> multi-versioning as follows:
> 
> grass binaries will be released as
> 
> grass62
> grass63
> grass64
> ...
> 
> all of them will be installable at the same time by using versioned
> paths (/usr/lib/grass62, grass63.1 etc.).


Honestly, I think that is totally unnecessary work, a dilution of dev
effort for no gain, and introducing dangerous new complication.


* 6.4.0 will be the next stable in the next few months and 6.2 will be
far obsolete. QGIS 1.0 will be built against on 6.4.0. By the time
lenny+1 is released we should be well past a 6.4.1 bugfix release.
There are still some things to do, but we are getting the release
announcement for 6.4.0rc1 ready now. 6.4.0 in Testing for most of
lenny+1 growth time means a stronger 6.4.1 in lenny+1-Stable.

* while 6.3.0 is officially a development release, it is very bug free
and fully capable of being "grass" in Debian's stable branch. As it is
now, 6.2.3 could&should be fully replaced by it for "production use".

* Once you have 6.3.0 installed there is zero reason to keep 6.2.3 around
* Once you have 6.4.0 installed there is no reason to keep 6.3.0 or 6.2.3
!!!

This is because grass is fully forwards compatible at the 6.x level.

older minor versions are really only interesting for developers to search
for when some change was introduced.


There is some sense in allowing grass6 + grass7 packages on the same
system to run grass6 specific scripts/addons. But I rather doubt grass7
will be ready for lenny+1.


regards,
Hamish