Ok, Thanks!!! It is clear now! Even for me as a non-native speaker.
Regards, Richard On 2/7/21 2:43 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > On 2/7/21 2:24 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote: >> On 2/7/21 12:35 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: >>> With the 3.16.4 release scheduled for February, after the Soft Freeze, >>> we're unlikely to get in into bullseye. >>> >>> The version in bullseye at time of release is irrelevant as the recent >>> LTR from testing is made available in backports. >>> " >>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=974769#12 >>> >>> This is no different than having 2.18.28 in buster, and 3.10.x in >>> buster-backports. >> >> Just to be sure, in a little less 'debian speak' :-) are you saying here >> that 3.16 will be available for bullseye users via 'backports' repo? > > On this list we speak Debian, sorry. > > This is what we have for buster at the moment: > > $ apt policy qgis > qgis: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 2.18.28+dfsg-2 > Version table: > 3.10.14+dfsg-1~bpo10+1 100 > 100 http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian buster-backports/main amd64 > Packages > 2.18.28+dfsg-2 500 > 500 http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages > > The most recent LTR at the time of the freeze in preparation for the > buster stable release was 2.18.28, so that's what in buster. During the > freeze the qgis package was updated to the 3.4.x LTR releases and those > where uploaded to buster-backports after they migrated to testing, and > they were eventually replaced by the 3.10.x releases. > > The same will happen, unless I get hit by a bus, for the upcoming > bullseye stable release. The qgis package in Debian will be updated to > the 3.16.4 on the 19th and uploaded to experimental and will stay there > until the release of bullseye. The qgis package will then be uploaded to > unstable from which it can migrate testing. Once it's in testing it will > be uploaded to bullseye-backports too. Just the we did while buster was > stable. > > Because QGIS point releases aren't guaranteed to be eligible for stable > updates, the best we can do for users is to provide the current LTR in > backports. > > For users that need something else there is the upstream qgis.org repo. > > Kind Regards, > > Bas >
