Debian package

[Robert C. Helling]

Hi,

I was wondering if there will be a Debian/Ubuntu .deb package.

There are of course two stages: a) we could create a binary .deb package 
to download from the subsurface website b) get listed in the distribution

I don't know about the current status but what I see is re b) there is 
subsurface in Debian testing and unstable (wheezy and sid). As you can see

http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/subsurface (there is also a binary 
package of course)

But this is only version 1.2 and last October somebody filed a bug report 
asking for an update to 2.0 but his never happend. We could still mail 
directly to the maintainer  Khalid El Fathi <khalid at elfathi.fr> and ask 
for an update.

re b) I see there is a packaging/debian subdirectory in the source. The 
information there seems to be outdated, in particular 
packaging/debian/control and I have no idea how to use this (I cannot find 
a corresponding make target). I would be willing to invest some time to 
learn this but I have never done this before and I am not sure I can 
figure out the dependencies (including version numbers) reliably. I would 
very much prefer if somebody with experience in building .deb packages 
would do this.

Best
Robert

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