Bug#824520: RFP: subsurface -- scuba diving logbook

[Philippe Cerfon <philcerf@gmail.com>]

On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 10:45 PM Salvo Tomaselli <tiposchi@tiscali.it> wrote:
> My advice is to forget this. Upstream is really uncooperative and
> Torvalds went to conferences to talk about this (conveniently
> forgetting to mention he was depending an unstable library whose
> author said "Don't use this yet")

Well also had some interactions with upstream in the past and it felt
indeed a bit "difficult". So I can kinda understand your frustration.

Nevertheless, that upstream may be a bit distribution-unfriendly
doesn't make subsurface itself less usable. I'd say it's still among
the "best" software for diving in the FLOSS world - and that "market"
isn't so big, so people cannot just easily choose any other random
software (none if which would be packaged for Debian either).

In the end, divers will just resort to some unofficial packages
(security issues) or IMO questionable systems like snap. So I think
there would be some value to get that officially packaged.

Thanks,
Philippe