Bug#807339: qgis: saga not available in processing toolbox

[Johan Van de Wauw]

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:40 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg
<sebastic at xs4all.nl> wrote:

>> I'd like to hear Johans opinion on SAGA support in QGIS.
>
> Not updating SAGA to newer upstream releases when we have a working
> QGIS/SAGA combination is not a very appealing option. It does seem to me
> the best way to have a working combination in stable without the need
> for additional repositories (backports or 3rd party).
>
> If the SAGA developers were to adopt LTS releases, this would greatly
> getting those versions supported in QGIS. We can then target those
> releases for inclusion in stable.
>
> In the mean time there is not much we as distribution maintainers can do
> about this issue, unless we stop keeping SAGA current to allow QGIS to
> catch up or actively port the SAGA Processing support in QGIS for every
> new SAGA release.
>
> @Johan, what can you tell us about this issue from the SAGA point of view?
>

I agree with the QGIS devs. The changing parameters are also a problem
for those just writing their own saga scripts. I will raise the issue
again on the mailinglist.

Kind Regards,
Johan