Re: Promote wip QGIS 4.2 to replace 3.x?

[Jim Spath <jspath55%gmail.com@localhost>]

Sounds good. I am just one user and can wait for developments.
Meanwhile, back in July, I opened a request to have the QGIS web site
show NetBSD along with FreeBSD and OpenBSD:
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Website/issues/1059
It does mention we have 3.x in pkgsrc and 4.x in wip.
Jim

On Tue, Sep 29, 2026 at 12:49 PM Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Jim Spath <jspath55%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
>
> > I have been using the QGIS 4 series from the wip directory on and off
> > for months, and am pleased with the version, stability and features of
> > interest to me. I only have 1 stumbling block as I could create a
> > local authentication store in an early release but cannot now; I can
> > connect to databases individually as a workaround.
> >
> > What is the process to replace the current pkgsrc qgis version with
> > the one in wip? I noticed today there are point releases for 3 and 4
> > -- "Linux, Windows and Mac packages of #QGIS  point releases 3.44.15
> > "Solothurn" (LTR) and 4.2.3 "Belém do Pará" ready on https://
> > qgis.org. Make maps not war".
>
> It is unfortunate that upstream touts binaries and doesn't mention
> source releases....
>
> The process is the the maintainer decides that it's time :-)  And I have
> not decided that.  There's a note at geography/gqis/Makefile asking that
> people not update to new branches, and that it intends to track LTR.
>
> In this case, upstream has not declared that 4.2 is "LTR" because of
> stability concerns.  Uptstream does not recommend to random users who
> wish to use qgis to et work done to use 4.2; they continue to recommend
> 3.44.x.   Upstream recently revised their plan to declare 4.2 LTR and
> now they are talking about 4.4.
>
> pkgsrc doctrine is to hand users the version they would choose if they
> are a normal useer that doesn't want to deal with grief and they had the
> time and skills to evaluate.  I continue to beliee that is 3.44.x.
>
> I have contemplated having qgis and qgis-ltr, but so far there seem to
> be zero people that really want that.   In effect we have that as
> wip/qgis and geography/qgis anyway.
>
> I am also observing the authentication provider bug that you see.  There
> are also some perhaps-missing qt6 libraries; see the comments in
> wip/qis/Makefile.
>
> In your case, you are building from wip ok, and I wonder if doing that,
> instead of having the bits in wip in geography/qigs, is causing you any
> real problems?
>
>
> It's great that you  are testing and that it works for you.  Please do
> let me know of any further issues.
>
> (I am due to micro-bump both packages after last Friday's point
> releases.)