Re: opencpn (was: opencpn: binaries without source)
On 30/11/18 06:55, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 11/29/18 11:18 PM, Alec Leamas wrote:
>> On 29/11/18 21:50, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>>> On 11/29/18 8:46 PM, Alec Leamas wrote:
>>
>>> Having looked at the content of the OpenCPN tarball and not been pleased
>>> by what I saw, I'm staring to doubt whether packaging opencpn is worth
>>> the effort. Perhaps it should stay out of Debian where it doesn't have
>>> to conform to our standards. Having as many of its dependencies as
>>> possible packaged is still valuable, as long as those projects are sane.
>>
>> Well, if that's your position we should perhaps just abort this work?
>
> It all depends on you, and how much you want to get the opencpn package
> in to Debian and do the work get it into acceptable shape.
Well, it takes two to tango. The question now is if you are willing to
accept the get-orig-source stuff required to walk around a known bug.
If you cannot accept it, that's the end of this effort.
--alec
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