Subsurface 2.0 has been tagged

Pierre-Yves Chibon pingou at pingoured.fr
Thu Oct 11 01:28:22 PDT 2012


On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 10:00 +0200, Jef Driesen wrote:
> On 2012-10-10 16:09, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 15:38 +0200, Jef Driesen wrote:
> >> On 2012-10-10 14:27, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
> >> > Libdivecomputer has been accepted into Fedora, builds are running. 
> >> So
> >> > I
> >> > am now preparing Subsurface for review as well.
> >>
> >> Great!
> >>
> >> Just a small comment. I noticed in the bugreport [1] that the 
> >> example
> >> applications are packaged too. I'm not sure that's a good idea. 
> >> These
> >> test applications are intended for diagnostic purposes only and they
> >> aren't really useful for end-users. That's also the reason why they
> >> don't have man pages.
> >
> > The question becomes then, do they need to be installed by make
> > install ?
> 
> Good question. I never even thought of that. I usually "install" local 
> software to a directory in my home directory (e.g. 
> --prefix=$HOME/local). That way I don't need root permissions, but as a 
> side-effect, the extra binaries don't cause any problems either. So I 
> never really paid any attention to that.

I am asking since I basically ran make install and kept all the files
installed.

> > Should I remove all what goes into /usr/bin/ then?
> 
> Maybe keep the universal app until the dctool is ready? That would be 
> consistent with the debian package. They also include only the universal 
> app.

Let's do that then, for the next release of libdivecomputer, there will
only be the dctool installed in /usr/bin.

Pierre


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