On 2016-09-11 14:19, Martin Gysel wrote: >> +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). They have, however, used the term "deprecated" to describe distribution-maintained packages. It's right there on the download page.
And yes, I know (and so do at least several other devs) that one of the major contributors to Subsurface is one Linus Torvalds. -- MS
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