working towards Subsurface 2.0

[Dirk Hohndel]

Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou at pingoured.fr> writes:

> On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 12:57 -0700, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>> - are there any contributors to Fedora / OpenSUSE / Debian / Ubuntu /
>>   Gentoo or any other distribution here who'd be willing to shepherd
>>   Subsurface packages into those? 
>
> I can help on this one for Fedora for both libdivecomputer and
> subsurface. I can also help to get someone into the packager group if
> you're interested in (co)maintaining it.
> But I can already say that the reviewer will complain about the presence
> of the -static sub-package containing the .la file.

That is currently necessary because of the way libdivecomputer handles
API compatibility until it hits 1.0 (basically, until 1.0 Jef will
continue to break API compatibility with the intent to get to a stable,
longer term compatible API for 1.0 - and at least so far this has not
been detectable from the makefile or packaging software as version
numbers didn't correspond to breakage). This is unfortunate but since
changes to libdivecomputer do indeed break the subsurface build from
time to time, I don't think this is easily avoidable at this point.

/D