Yes of course for the users of Debian it's best to have it rather than not have it.
Best of luck! Il giorno mer 25 mag 2022 alle ore 03:49 Philippe Cerfon <philc...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > > On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 10:45 PM Salvo Tomaselli <tipos...@tiscali.it> wrote: > > My advice is to forget this. Upstream is really uncooperative and > > Torvalds went to conferences to talk about this (conveniently > > forgetting to mention he was depending an unstable library whose > > author said "Don't use this yet") > > Well also had some interactions with upstream in the past and it felt > indeed a bit "difficult". So I can kinda understand your frustration. > > Nevertheless, that upstream may be a bit distribution-unfriendly > doesn't make subsurface itself less usable. I'd say it's still among > the "best" software for diving in the FLOSS world - and that "market" > isn't so big, so people cannot just easily choose any other random > software (none if which would be packaged for Debian either). > > In the end, divers will just resort to some unofficial packages > (security issues) or IMO questionable systems like snap. So I think > there would be some value to get that officially packaged. > > Thanks, > Philippe -- Salvo Tomaselli "Io non mi sento obbligato a credere che lo stesso Dio che ci ha dotato di senso, ragione ed intelletto intendesse che noi ne facessimo a meno." -- Galileo Galilei http://ltworf.github.io/ltworf/