Fwd: opencpn_4.8.8+dfsg.2-1_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into unstable, unstable

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 11/23/19 3:31 PM, Alec Leamas wrote:
> On 20/11/2019 22:59, Alec Leamas wrote:
>> Hi Andreas,
>>
>> On 16/11/2019 23:10, Andreas Tille wrote:
>>
> 
>>> Just ping me for another upload.  Its really recommended to do
>>> a source upload after a new package was accepted since only than
>>> the package will propagate to testing.
>>
>> I have pushed a 5.0.0 update to gitlab/salsa. If anyone has some cycles
>> available to review it I would be thankful.
> 
> Well, there is not much input on that, I guess. Anyway, I have slept on
> it and checked again. To me it looks good. What about you?

I've not had time and motivation enough for a review.

> PS: Somewhere in the back of my head there is something about not using
> the latest compat level to ease the ubuntu branches. I'm fostered by
> Fedora, where no such thing ever would be said about rawhide. But, this
> is certainly not Fedora. So, is using 12 correct? DS

Compat level 12 is only usable as-is on testing/unstable and
{old,}stable-backports.

Ubuntu only supports it in bionic-backports, for xenial changes will be
required.

We generally use compat level 9 for GIS packages because that's widely
supported, even compat level 10 requires backports for xenial. If there
is no specific need for a higher compat level using 9 is best for
everyone. This is also documented in the team policy:

 https://debian-gis-team.pages.debian.net/policy/policy.html#debian-compat

Once xenial is EOL (in April 2021) we'll update the policy to recommend
compat level 11 as that's available in bionic (without backports). While
OSGeoLive is based on bionic, UbuntuGIS also backports those packages to
xenial, hence the need to stick to the lowest common denomintator
(oldest non-EOL Ubuntu LTS).

Kind Regards,

Bas

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