Bug#701536: RM: subsurface -- RoQA; unmaintained package, maintainer MIA

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

On 4 March 2013 18:37, Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian.org> wrote:
> Removing also 701536 at bugs.debian.org from the C/C list.
>
> On 04/03/2013 18:17, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>> Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian.org> writes:
>>
>>> On 04/03/2013 11:07, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
>>>>> By the way, I started to work on the packaging. I updated
>>>>> libdivecomputer and I am working on subsurface.
>>>>
>>>> That sounds super :)
>>>DEB_BUILT_OPTIONS=
>>> Here it is:
>>> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/subsurface.git;a=summary
>>> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/libdivecomputer.git;a=summary
>>>
>>> Khalid, I am sorry but I had to kill the subsurface.git repository. It
>>> was not correctly set up.
>>>
>>> I uploaded libdivecomputer. Once it reached the Debian mirror, I will
>>> upload subsurface 3.0.2.
>>
>> Please let me know so I can point at this from our Downloads page.
>>
>> I don't know how this usually works... will this flow into Ubuntu in a
>> timely manner or should we set up a PPA in the mean time?
>>
>> Because as individual Linux flavors go, Ubuntu is in our top three...
> Sure ;)
>
> For Debian, it is related to our workflow.
> For now, we are in freeze. That means that testing & unstable are not
> supposed to change much. This is the case until Wheezy is released.
> It is why I uploaded the package to experimental.
> Once wheezy is released, I will upload two packages in unstable. After
> 10 days without any bugs, they will reach testing (future Jessie). It is
> basically a rolling release.
> In parallel, if necessary, I could upload the packages into the Debian
> backports (http://backports-master.debian.org/) once Wheezy is released.
>
> About Ubuntu, I just filled a sync request from Debian => Ubuntu Raring.
> Since subsurface didn't reach the mirror, I've only been able to fill it
> for libdivecomputer:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1144944
>
> If we are lucky, someone in Ubuntu will ack quickly and we will have it
> for Raring.
>

Synced, uploaded credited to Sylvestre.
I can quickly setup a ppa with a recipe to build the package from
lp:debian/experimental/[subsurface|libdivecomputer]
That way simply by uploading into debian, newer packages will be build
in the ppa.
Would you be ok with that, Sylvestre?
It does mean that the packaging should be kept backwards compatible
with Precise (which by the looks of things will be easy as the
dependencies are fairly light).

Regards,

Dmitrijs.