On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 12:07:18PM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > Dirk Hohndel wrote: > > > > For that reason we have our own fork of Marble from which we build a much > > smaller custom libssrfmarblewidget... Subsurface 4.5 will require that > > library and has it's name hardcoded. Of course, Subsurface being open > > source a determined maintainer could easily work around that :-) > > > > Similarly, we have our own version of libdivecomputer that includes some > > changes that upstream wasn't ready to take and that improve the user > > experience. We document that behavior in our user manual and it's > > confusing to the user if this isn't what happens. > > thanks. > > These are good reasons to justify fedora packaging use the bundled > components then. I'll see if I can help make that happen. If successful, > would that mean you'd withdraw your request that fedora not ship subsurface?
Different distributions have responded differently to the way we package Subsurface. Arch Linux is shipping a package built with the same custom libraries that we recommend people use. Ubuntu has stopped upgrading Subsurface but still offers a way outdated version to it's users (not quite sure how that's helpful) - I actually just filed a but with them :-) If Fedora were to use the two custom libraries that I mention to build the official Fedora package that would of course mean that I'm withdrawing the request to drop Subsurface. Thanks for your help! /D _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
