On 11/30/18 8:50 AM, Alec Leamas wrote: > 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.
Note that I'm not the only tango partner. There is also SoB and regular mentors sponsorship. The get-orig-source target will have to do for now, but it really needs to start using scan as soon as possible. Kind Regards, Bas -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1
