Control: retitle -1 unblock: qgis/3.4.6+dfsg-1 On 3/17/19 11:43 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > On 3/17/19 8:17 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: >> On 2/24/19 9:23 PM, Bas Couwenberg wrote: >>> Because the 2.18 LTR is EOL with the release of QGIS 3.4.5 having the >>> latter in buster is probably better than leaving the qgis package at the >>> last 2.18.x release (2.18.28). >>> >>> QGIS 3.4 is the new LTR and switches to Qt5 and Python 3, as such >>> the changes since the version in testing are quite large and cannot be >>> considered "small, targeted fixes". >>> >>> While users of the qgis package are unlikely to use the version of the >>> package available in stable, and more likely using the latest LTR from >>> backports, I think having 3.4.5 in buster is better for users upgrading >>> from stretch than leaving them with the EOL 2.18.28 release until the >>> package is updated in buster-backports. >>> >>> Would you approve of moving QGIS 3.4.5 from experimental to unstable and >>> allowing it to migrate to tesing for inclusion in buster? >>> >>> Or should we keep it experimental until after the release, and make the >>> newer LTRs available in buster-backports when it hits testing? >> >> As reported by Lucas Nussbaum in #924833, qgis (2.18.28-2) FTBFS in >> unstable due to sip4 (4.19.14+dfsg-1) which was uploaded a couple of >> weeks after qgis. >> >> With 2.18.x being EOL upstream, we cannot rely on upstream to provide a >> fix, and I lack the skills for it. >> >> I'm going to move QGIS 3.4 to unstable so that we at least have a >> version of QGIS in unstable that supports SIP 4.19.14. >> >> If the changes in QGIS 3.4 are deemed to invasive for an unblock, we'll >> have to release buster without qgis and deal with lots of unhappy users.
qgis (3.4.6+dfsg-1) has been uploaded to unstable. Please unblock it, to fix the FTBFS issue (#924833) in testing. The debdiff is 477M (60M gzipped), so not attached. unblock qgis/3.4.6+dfsg-1 Kind Regards, Bas -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1
