Re: Please do not forget to mention Debian GIS in release notes [was: Bug#782695: release-notes: please add news from Debian Med to release notes]
I would mention something in the lines
fruitful cooperation with UbuntuGIS has shown first results
Just rememeber that Debian release notes have a wide user coverage and
it would not harm if this cooperation is mentioned here to let people
know.
Just my 2 Euro-Cents
Andreas.
> Hi Andreas,
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> Thanks for your consideration.
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> > I'd consider mentioning Debian GIS in release notes as quite important.
> > Feel free to follow the example bug report (and press thumbs that it is
> > not yet to late).
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> I don't know what we could mention to justify an entry in the release notes.
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> Not much has happened since wheezy, except that most of the packages were
> updated. This is not notable by itself, because it's expected in a new
> stable release. Initially many of the GIS package had the same version in
> stable, testing & unstable, that's fortunately no longer the case.
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> For jessie I'm considering actively providing backports, but I've not
> committed to this yet. If I had, it could be noteworthy. At the moment I
> don't expect backports to be very viable due to dependency constraints.
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> I expect the stretch release to have more noteworthy Debian GIS changes
> with GDAL 2.0, the next QGIS LTR, new OSM related packages, etc.
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> Kind Regards,
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> Bas
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