On 30/11/18 06:55, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > On 11/29/18 11:18 PM, Alec Leamas wrote: >> On 29/11/18 21:50, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: >>> On 11/29/18 8:46 PM, Alec Leamas wrote: >> >>> Having looked at the content of the OpenCPN tarball and not been pleased >>> by what I saw, I'm staring to doubt whether packaging opencpn is worth >>> the effort. Perhaps it should stay out of Debian where it doesn't have >>> to conform to our standards. Having as many of its dependencies as >>> possible packaged is still valuable, as long as those projects are sane. >> >> Well, if that's your position we should perhaps just abort this work? > > It all depends on you, and how much you want to get the opencpn package > in to Debian and do the work get it into acceptable shape.
Well, it takes two to tango. The question now is if you are willing to accept the get-orig-source stuff required to walk around a known bug. If you cannot accept it, that's the end of this effort. --alec
