On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:29:22AM +0000, Pedro Neves wrote: > On 16/12/2014 11:20, Pedro Neves wrote: > >Hi Sylvestre: > > > >I'm writing you because I saw you name as a maintainer for the Debian > >Subsurface package (https://packages.debian.org/experimental/subsurface). > > > >I'm also involved with the Subsurface project and we'd like to know if and > >how it would be possible to have official subsurface packages on Debian. > > > >Any advice would be very welcomed. > > >-> Sylvestre> This is not really trivial...
Tell me about it :-) >-> Sylvestre> If you want to package it for Debian stable, it will probably >requires >-> Sylvestre> backport of other libraries. Debian stable is not a reasonable platform to develop for. Most everything I need doesn't exist or exists in ancient version. And I don't believe any sane person uses Debian stable as their desktop. Certainly not a diver who needs a prebuilt package. >-> Sylvestre> If you want to make it official for Debian testing (jessie), you >could >-> Sylvestre> without too much damages. I'll be happy to talk about this, but only at my terms, sorry. A static libdivecomputer, built from our branch of libdc, and our private libssrfmarblewidget, also built from our branch. But actually, I take it back, see below. > If you want to follow up this, it's ok. If not, I can try to explain him > that we have our own packages and check with him what would it take to > upload those to Debian... I think Sylvestre is on this list, at least he used to be. What people seem to be missing is this: I really don't care whether Subsurface is part of the official package feed of any distribution. That's like asking me if I care if Subsurface became part of what Apple ships in Mac OS X 10.10.5 or what MSFT ships as Windows 10. All I care about is that it is easy to install ON those OSs. I repeat. the way the Linux community deals with applications is insane ass-backwards broken bullshit. I am not interested. The Subsurface PPA in Ubuntu which works for LinuxMint and Debian testing is all I care about. It makes it easy enough for the casual user to install Subsurface. That's the goal. Nothing else. The more I think about it, I would actually prefer if the distros DROPPED Subsurface and did NOT package it. I still see occasional reports complaining about bugs in Subsurface 4.0 - because that's what's in someone's official repositories. I think I'll add language like this to the announcement, asking people NOT to install anything but the binaries that we provide. /D _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
