Dirk:
I don't know the maintainer, but I've dropped him an email. I'll get
back to you as soon as I get an answer.
Cheers:
Pedro
On 12/15/2014 12:58 AM, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
There's Subsurface packages on the Debian repositories. Do you know the
maintainer? Can we approach him and check what the procedures are regarding the
uploading of packages in the official repositories?
The problem is that I am 99.99% sure that the way I package Subsurface violates
a few Debian packaging rules.
Which is done intentionally. I do NOT WANT to use the library from the Marble
package - that keeps causing problems. Similarly, I want to statically link
against libgit2 (as that has issues and I believe is still not in Debian
stable). And of course I’m using private branches for both libmarblewidget and
libdivecomputer - also not allowed.
And I bet there’s another two dozen rules (the third line of this file needs to
end with two spaces, a period and the UTF8 symbol for the artist formally known
as Prince…).
Oh, and of course I don’t follow their changelog rules, either.
So, no, I don’t think this will ever become an official package. And I don’t
consider that an issue. I consider this a feature.
The way Linux distributions do packages is stupid, broken, archaic and
completely misses the point of what both app developers or end users need.
Yes, I have very strongly held feelings about this. I used to be the CTO of a
Linux distribution and I lost this fight when I was there. I’m tired of
fighting this fight, instead I’ll happily just work around this.
What I care about is to make things easier for our users (the few that we have
that aren’t on Windows/Mac/Ubuntu)
So if the Ubuntu .deb simply installs I think we’re done here. I just need to
put it on our server in addition to the PPA.
/D
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