[Pkg-running-devel] Bug#789875: Bug#789875: needs to be removed

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 02:20:47PM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Salvo Tomaselli (tiposchi at tiscali.it):
> > tags: wontfix
> > thanks
> > 
> > 
> > Libgit2 breaks API at every minor release.
> > 
> > Subsurface insists on using it.
> > 
> > Subsurface's upstream does not like distributions and will make packaging more 
> > and more difficult on purpose, to discourage distributions from packaging it.
> > 
> > https://www.mail-archive.com/subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org/msg05634.html
> > 
> > Honestly, there is nothing I can do, that doesn't involve forking subsurface.
> > 
> > Sorry
> 
> Agreed. Stop dealing with that upstream ("I believe that the
> design of most Linux distros is fundamentally broken" : how arrogant
> is that) and let's throw subsurface away as it is....or just fork it
> to make it distro-friendly.

I guess we agree to disagree.

> Just leave this guy (these guys) play with they hobby, manually compile each
> and every software that comes on their machines and live in their own
> broken world.
> 
> I very much understand your bitterness, Salvio. You did great work
> packaging this software and it will be lost.
> 
> I very very very seldomly became aggressive in dozens of years on free
> software but that issue is among those that drive me to the Dark
> Side. Sorry for this.

Sorry we are making you aggressive. We are just trying to create the best
possible experience for our users. And the current model that
distributions use when it comes to applications and the libraries that
they depend on doesn't allow us to do so.

That's why we politely ask the distributions not to ship versions of
Subsurface that don't provide the same user experience as our binaries
provide.

You are more than welcome to fork Subsurface - we politely ask that you
use a different project name if you do that to avoid confusing users.

Anyway, thanks for removing Subsurface from Debian.

/D