Why not the 2.18.16 LTR version for Bionic Beaver?

[Rodrigo]

I'm planning to upgrade my Ubuntu 16.04.3 to Ubuntu 18.04 in April. QGIS is the my main working software for making maps etc.

If you go to QGIS download page https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html it uses the terms '2.14.22 (previous LTR)' and '2.18.16 (new LTR)'.

But right now, the version marked here on Launchpad for QGIS is 2.14.22, but why not 2.18.16? Since Ubuntu 18.04 will be an LTS release I think it would be great to have the current LTR version instead of the old.

[Jürgen E. Fischer (jef-norbit)]

The qgis.org debian repositories already carry bionic builds (see https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#debian-ubuntu).

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Because this package is in sync with Debian, it would be nice if somebody could send the request to the packagers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Debian/Bugs . If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Bas Couwenberg (sebastic)]

qgis in Debian will be updated to 2.18 when it replaces 2.14 in the upstream LTR repo.

This should be next month when QGIS 3.0.0 is released, see:

 https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/development/roadmap.html#release-schedule

This is probably too late to get it into bionic before the Debian Import Freeze in March, since autopkgtest causes major delays getting packages to migrate from proposed.

Since pretty much all geospatial packages are in universe and effectively unmaintained in Ubuntu, it's highly unlikely that any one will focus on resolving the issues that block the geospatial packages from being included in the bionic release.

[Bas Couwenberg (sebastic)]

QGIS 2.18.17 is in Debian unstable, but Ubuntu has not synced it into bionic yet.

The DebianImportFreeze is tomorrow, so it seems unlikely that bionic will include QGIS 2.18.

[Johan Van de Wauw (johanvdw)]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 10:53 AM, Bas Couwenberg <<email address hidden>
> wrote:

> QGIS 2.18.17 is in Debian unstable, but Ubuntu has not synced it into
> bionic yet.
>
> The DebianImportFreeze is tomorrow, so it seems unlikely that bionic
> will include QGIS 2.18.

It is already in proposed, so might make it anyway.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qgis

[Bas Couwenberg (sebastic)]

> It is already in proposed, so might make it anyway.

It's not in proposed any more.

[Bas Couwenberg (sebastic)]

Lucky you, qgis 2.18.17+dfsg-1 is in the release pocket since 12 hours ago.

[Rodrigo (iquequeisso)]

Thanks you very much guys!

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

With qgis 2.18.17+dfsg-1 in 18.04 (and the above comments), I reckon this is fixed.