Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : subsurface Version : 4.5.6 Upstream Author : Dirk Hohndel <d...@hohndel.org> * URL : https://subsurface-divelog.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : scuba diving logbook
Apparently, subsurface had previously been packaged for Debian but got removed (#789875) due to some questionable wish by upstream (according to their website they consider distribution packaging "deprecated") as well as the problems that were caused by libgit2 having some unstable API. Now it seems that subsurface is however packaged for most (all?) other major distros: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/subsurface https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home:Subsurface-Divelog&package=subsurface https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/subsurface/ https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-misc/subsurface So I'm kinda missing the point why it shouldn't be possible to have so for Debian. AFAICS, upstream has anyway factually forked libgit2 and libdivecomputer, so these could be used and the problems mentioned in #789875 would be moot. As for upstream's wish not to package it: Well that seems a bit questionable as for the general open source / distros model. Right now, upstream doesn't even seem to provide packages for Debian but suggests people to use their Ubuntu packages. Also, it seems simply plain wrong to encourage not to use a proper package management system here - Debian users loose any security support and a secure way to get the software not to talk about proper Debian integration and community support. Cheers.