Hi Christoph,
Hmm, the Xenial packages work on Yakkety for me. But maybe that's
because I'm not using any geometrical stuff?
I'll probably upgrade my desktop to Zesty one of these days anyway.
/Colin
On 9 May 2017 at 10:44, Christoph Berg <christoph.berg@credativ.de> wrote:
> Re: Colin 't Hart 2017-05-08 <CAMon-aQaY6vxHnx2_R2ZE4LggY4-U5dAhNXOorSV16vtCNzceQ@mail.gmail.com>
>> Why is Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty) available as a release on the PGDG
>> repository, but 16.10 (Yakkety) isn't, even though both aren't LTS
>> releases?
>>
>> I'm using the 16.04 (Xenial) packages on 16.10 without a problem;
>> would it be (easily) possible to add Yakkety and point it at the same
>> packages? Or is that something you don't want to do as it would imply
>> that the packages are in some way supported?
>>
>> Thanks for providing these packages, BTW!
>
> Hi Colin,
>
> the postgis packages from xenial are not installable on yakkety and
> zesty because libcgal (or something related) changed soname. We were
> aware of the problem for some time, but until I got to fix it, zesty
> was near release, so adding yakkety did not seem like an investment
> that would hold long, so we went directly for zesty.
>
> Adding a new distribution is mostly mechanical work (triggering
> rebuilds of everything), but still takes a few hours to check
> everything is in order.
>
> Christoph
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