[Pkg-running-devel] Bug#789875: subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 09:08:03AM +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> Le 27/08/2015 05:33, Michael Gilbert a écrit :
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 7:11 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >> So quite frankly, the fact that Debian people now attack Dirk, who has
> >> been bending over backwards over these kinds of stupidities, is not a
> >> big surprise. I think it's in the Debian DNA to care more about rules
> >> than about technical sanity. The whole "this is the only right way to
> >> do licensing" thing extends to "this is the only correct waty to do
> >> packaging".
> >>
> >> It's sad to see.
> > Perhaps it isn't clear external to the project, but participation in
> > the Debian BTS does not automatically make one a Debian person, which
> > not a defined status.
> >
> > The maintainer of the subsurface package, an official Debian status,
> > removed the package on request, so in many ways, problem happily
> > solved?
> >
> Even if I am not the initial packager of subsurface, I was the
> maintainer for the past
> few years.
> I think we worked great with Dirk. He uplifted some of my patches
> without any issue,
> always been friendly and quick to answer. He was a great upstream. We
> quickly discussed
> at the New Orleans during Linux Plumber about this packaging.

Thanks, Sylvestre, I really appreciate you saying that.
Asking Debian to drop Subsurface wasn't an easy decision to make. But I
still believe it's the right decision at this point. Maybe in a little
while, once libgit2 has made it into Debian we can revisit the question if
a full-featured Subsurface can be shipped with Debian. Right now I think
the solution that we have is the best we can do.

Thanks for all your work on Subsurface.

/D