Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE people...

[Pedro Neves]

Dirk:

I don't know the maintainer, but I've dropped him an email. I'll get 
back to you as soon as I get an answer.

Cheers:

Pedro


On 12/15/2014 12:58 AM, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>
>> There's Subsurface packages on the Debian repositories. Do you know the maintainer? Can we approach him and check what the procedures are regarding the uploading of packages in the official repositories?
> The problem is that I am 99.99% sure that the way I package Subsurface violates a few Debian packaging rules.
> Which is done intentionally. I do NOT WANT to use the library from the Marble package - that keeps causing problems. Similarly, I want to statically link against libgit2 (as that has issues and I believe is still not in Debian stable). And of course I’m using private branches for both libmarblewidget and libdivecomputer - also not allowed.
> And I bet there’s another two dozen rules (the third line of this file needs to end with two spaces, a period and the UTF8 symbol for the artist formally known as Prince…).
> Oh, and of course I don’t follow their changelog rules, either.
>
> So, no, I don’t think this will ever become an official package. And I don’t consider that an issue. I consider this a feature.
> The way Linux distributions do packages is stupid, broken, archaic and completely misses the point of what both app developers or end users need.
>
> Yes, I have very strongly held feelings about this. I used to be the CTO of a Linux distribution and I lost this fight when I was there. I’m tired of fighting this fight, instead I’ll happily just work around this.
>
> What I care about is to make things easier for our users (the few that we have that aren’t on Windows/Mac/Ubuntu)
>
> So if the Ubuntu .deb simply installs I think we’re done here. I just need to put it on our server in addition to the PPA.
>
> /D