Re: Re. subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-27 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Wednesday 26 August 2015 06:50:20 Dirk Hohndel wrote: > And then there is Linux. 1/5th of the number of users that Windows has > (for Subsurface). Even though on Windows there are tons of alternatives > and on Linux there's nothing else. And we have all the developers here > mixed into those num

Re: Re. subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-27 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Wednesday 26 August 2015 17:40:28 Tomaz Canabrava wrote: > > I don’t know anything about CentOS, but these days I happen to build > > subsurface on Macs which only have homebrew which should be much more > > basic > > than any Linux distribution package manager. But here, I just have to > > inst

Re: Re. subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-27 Thread Dirk Hohndel
> On Aug 27, 2015, at 07:17, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > >> >> I'd love to fix those. Can you point them out to me? When first setting >> things up I did a few test installs in VMs and all seemed to work fine. >> But I never tried to build the source rpms, to be honest. > > I'm hoping to spen

Re: Re. subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-27 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 06:58:57AM -0700, Dirk Hohndel wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 02:36:45PM +0200, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 02:22:18PM +0200, Guillaume Gardet wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Le 26/08/2015 13:21, Pierre-Yves Chibon a écrit : > > > >>>Well apparently

Re: Re. subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-27 Thread Dirk Hohndel
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 02:36:45PM +0200, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 02:22:18PM +0200, Guillaume Gardet wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Le 26/08/2015 13:21, Pierre-Yves Chibon a écrit : > > >>>Well apparently subsurface is now targeted towards Win/Mac[0] (no > > >>>binaries for Lin

Re: Bug#789875: subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-27 Thread 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

Re: Re. subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-27 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 02:22:18PM +0200, Guillaume Gardet wrote: > Hi, > > Le 26/08/2015 13:21, Pierre-Yves Chibon a écrit : > >>>Well apparently subsurface is now targeted towards Win/Mac[0] (no > >>>binaries for Linux)... so the "experience" for FLOSS users will simply > >>>be that there is no

Re: Re. subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-27 Thread Guillaume Gardet
Hi, Le 26/08/2015 13:21, Pierre-Yves Chibon a écrit : Well apparently subsurface is now targeted towards Win/Mac[0] (no binaries for Linux)... so the "experience" for FLOSS users will simply be that there is no subsurface anymore. No, we have binaries available for Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Min

Re: Bug#789875: subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-27 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
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

Re: Bug#789875: subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-26 Thread Michael Gilbert
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 sani

Re: Bug#789875: subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-26 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Mikko Rasa wrote: > > Have you considered in-source copies of the modified libraries? Ehh. That's what subsurface has done since day#1 - even back when I maintained it (long long ago), I refused to link against a dynamic libdivecomputer, because the libdivecompute

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

2015-08-26 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
Hello, can we please stop? Christoph, if you want to take over subsurface in debian you can. But patches that need to be maintained are going to be huge; it is a lot of work. If you don't intend to do this work you can stop using it, compile their source code or get their binaries. Either way thi

Re: Bug#789875: subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-26 Thread Mikko Rasa
Since these emails managed to escape my mail filters and catch my attention, I'll butt in with my opinion. Apologies if this has been said already. Have you considered in-source copies of the modified libraries? Perhaps as git submodules? If you take full control of building and installing

Re: Re. subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-26 Thread Anton Lundin
On 26 August, 2015 - Lutz Vieweg wrote: > On 08/26/2015 09:56 PM, Anton Lundin wrote: > >There are a bunch of cmake flags to turn some bells off. Most of those > >are to support different builds of subsurface, like the Android app, but > >those can be (ab)used to "reduce" your subsurface building

Re: Re. subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-26 Thread Lutz Vieweg
On 08/26/2015 09:56 PM, Anton Lundin wrote: There are a bunch of cmake flags to turn some bells off. Most of those are to support different builds of subsurface, like the Android app, but those can be (ab)used to "reduce" your subsurface building burden. FBSUPPORT=OFF -> no more facebook share. D

Re: Re. subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-26 Thread Tomaz Canabrava
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Robert C. Helling wrote: > Lutz, > > On 26 Aug 2015, at 20:10, Lutz Vieweg wrote: > > I don't know anything about copr yet, and I am kind of sure that the > way I built Subsurface for CentOS (in a freely relocateable directory > which holds everything including a

Re: subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-26 Thread Anton Lundin
On 26 August, 2015 - Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 17:55 -0700, Dirk Hohndel wrote: ... > > An application should be able to bring its own libraries for those > > libraries that it is so tightly coupled with that it makes no sense > > to > > allow random combinations.

Re: Re. subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-26 Thread Anton Lundin
On 26 August, 2015 - Lutz Vieweg wrote: > This thread has turned into a bitter fight over "distribution policies" > vs. "upstream maintainer's freedom of choice", where I see valid arguments > from both sides as well "too much emotion". > > To contribute another view point: > > I am using the mo

Re: Bug#789875: subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-26 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 09:05 -0700, Dirk Hohndel wrote: > Some of us have expressed our dismay with the way distributions work > these days. Well to be honest such dismay comes usually always from the same fraction within open source... which is typically exactly that fraction which tries to put mor

Re: Re. subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-26 Thread Robert C. Helling
Lutz, > On 26 Aug 2015, at 20:10, Lutz Vieweg mailto:l...@5t9.de>> > wrote: > > I don't know anything about copr yet, and I am kind of sure that the > way I built Subsurface for CentOS (in a freely relocateable directory > which holds everything including a script which deduces the required > en

Re: Re. subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-26 Thread Lutz Vieweg
On 08/26/2015 07:52 PM, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: Yesterday I endeavored to build the Subsurface git master head on CentOS, and it was kind of a nightmare - everything, from just-one-patchlevel-version-of- cmake-ahead-of-what-CentOS-delivers, continuing with of course Qt 5 in a very certain vers

Re: Re. subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-26 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 07:33:06PM +0200, Lutz Vieweg wrote: > This thread has turned into a bitter fight over "distribution policies" > vs. "upstream maintainer's freedom of choice", where I see valid arguments > from both sides as well "too much emotion". > > To contribute another view point: >

Re: Re. subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-26 Thread Lutz Vieweg
This thread has turned into a bitter fight over "distribution policies" vs. "upstream maintainer's freedom of choice", where I see valid arguments from both sides as well "too much emotion". To contribute another view point: I am using the most recent and up-to-date CentOS release, also on the l

Re: Re. subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-26 Thread Dirk Hohndel
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 06:32:39PM +0200, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 09:15:51AM -0700, Dirk Hohndel wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 05:18:16PM +0200, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > > > > Would you help me to get things set up so I can do this? The server all > > > > of > >

Re: Re. subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-26 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 09:15:51AM -0700, Dirk Hohndel wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 05:18:16PM +0200, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > > > Would you help me to get things set up so I can do this? The server all of > > > my non-Mac builds run on happens to be a Ubuntu system. Is that an issue? > > >

Re: Bug#789875: subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-26 Thread Dirk Hohndel
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 04:40:43PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 13:40 +0300, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote: > > your approach for convincing is offensive and unwise. > Well if upstreams are effectively hostile against core paradigms of the > FLOSS community, it must expe

Re: Re. subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-26 Thread Dirk Hohndel
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 05:18:16PM +0200, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > > Would you help me to get things set up so I can do this? The server all of > > my non-Mac builds run on happens to be a Ubuntu system. Is that an issue? > > Can I push things into copr from Ubuntu or do I need to be on Fedora?

Re: Re. subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-26 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 07:37:01AM -0700, Dirk Hohndel wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 04:20:16PM +0200, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 06:50:20AM -0700, Dirk Hohndel wrote: > > > > I looked quickly over the spec file and I call already tell that the > > > > spec file > > >

Re: Re. subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-26 Thread Dirk Hohndel
Hi Pierre, On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 04:20:16PM +0200, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 06:50:20AM -0700, Dirk Hohndel wrote: > > > I looked quickly over the spec file and I call already tell that the spec > > > file > > > used would not be valid on Fedora, even more fun the sour

Re: Re. subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-26 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 06:50:20AM -0700, Dirk Hohndel wrote: > > I looked quickly over the spec file and I call already tell that the spec > > file > > used would not be valid on Fedora, even more fun the source rpm doesn't even > > build on Fedora. > > Patches welcome. Please help me make this

Re: Re. subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-26 Thread Dirk Hohndel
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 01:21:21PM +0200, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > > > Well apparently subsurface is now targeted towards Win/Mac[0] (no > > > binaries for Linux)... so the "experience" for FLOSS users will simply > > > be that there is no subsurface anymore. > > > > No, we have binaries availa

Re: Re. subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-26 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
> > Well apparently subsurface is now targeted towards Win/Mac[0] (no > > binaries for Linux)... so the "experience" for FLOSS users will simply > > be that there is no subsurface anymore. > > No, we have binaries available for Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Mint, and, of > course, Debian. And we have

Re: subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-26 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 01:40:44PM +0300, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote: > i'm getting the notion that the Linux distribution maintainers are > simply buthurt for the fact that Linus Torvalds started Subsurface and > as a peace of software it now no longer obeys the Linux distribution > rules; it's setti

Re: subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-26 Thread Lubomir I. Ivanov
On 26 August 2015 at 05:38, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 17:55 -0700, Dirk Hohndel wrote: >> Being called stupid and arrogant is usually not a great conversation >> opener, but hey, I've been called worse. > Well I should have probably immediately apologised along the wa

Re: subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-25 Thread Christian PERRIER
> libgit,... well I'm not really into the subsurface code, but I never > understood why you introduced that as a storage backend. > Even the most prolific divers I know don't have more then 30k-50k > dives, and usually these people stopped logging there day to day dives > decades ago. > Using a pl

Re: Re. subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-25 Thread Steve Butler
On 08/25/2015 05:10 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Hey. How saddening to see such a nice program for divers being basically destroyed by a stupid and arrogant upstream (and while some may consider this impolite, I guess it's simply the truth). Humph. The daily PPA works fine for me on Ub

Re: subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-25 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 17:55 -0700, Dirk Hohndel wrote: > Being called stupid and arrogant is usually not a great conversation > opener, but hey, I've been called worse. Well I should have probably immediately apologised along the way, just for the sake of politeness... But the believe to know it m

Re: Re. subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-25 Thread Dirk Hohndel
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 02:10:06AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > How saddening to see such a nice program for divers being basically > destroyed by a stupid and arrogant upstream (and while some may > consider this impolite, I guess it's simply the truth). You are entitled to your op

Re. subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

2015-08-25 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. How saddening to see such a nice program for divers being basically destroyed by a stupid and arrogant upstream (and while some may consider this impolite, I guess it's simply the truth). Especially the assumption to know it better than the rest of the whole opensource world and decades of p