Debian package

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Fri Feb 15 15:48:18 PST 2013


Ah, life is much better now, thanks to Jef actively working with us.
There is a v0.3 branch and v0.3.0 release and that is what we require 
for Subsurface 3.0

I agree, the situation a little over a year ago when we did 1.1 and 1.2 
was quite messy

/D



On February 15, 2013 3:44:41 PM Roland Dreier <roland.dreier at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>
> > Roland kindly provided that initial Debian package… maybe you can get 
> him to update it :-)
>
> The main obstacle to packaging subsurface (for me at least) is that
> the dependency on libdivecomputer makes things very messy, because the
> last time I payed attention, subsurface required a certain particular
> revision of libdivecomputer that was not available as a formal
> release.  That means I have to package some random git version of
> libdivecomputer and put an ugly dependency in the subsurface package.
> I realize nothing else is that likely to use libdivecomputer, but it
> makes the packages very yucky from a Debian POV.
>
>  - R.




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