Am 10.09.2016 um 06:59 schrieb Raymond Jennings: > On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 4:04 AM, Marek Szuba <mare...@gentoo.org > <mailto:mare...@gentoo.org>> wrote: > > # Martin Gysel <m...@bearsh.org <mailto:m...@bearsh.org>> via g-p-m (09 > Sep 2016) > # Versions currently in Portage are old and block removal of other > # packages. Current versions require building against modified versions > # of dev-libs/libdivecomputer and kde-apps/marble which must be fetched > # from Git, and which are not versioned (upstream uses branch tags). > # Finally, upstream considers distribution-maintained packages > deprecated. > # Removal in 30 days. > app-misc/subsurface > > > +1. Any package whose upstream says "don't build this yourself" is > hostile to open source principles.
just to make it clear, upstream never said such thing nor are they in any way hostile to open source principles (I suppose you wouldn't state that if you know subsurface's developers). subsurface is open source but that does not mean that its developers have to care about every distro or way to distribute it. history has shown for them that it not really feasible to do so give the number of active contributes. furthermore there were valid reasons for them to 'fork' some of subsurface's deps. /martin
