Bug#965363: RFS: opencpn/5.2.0+dfsg-1 [RC] -- Open Source Chartplotter and Marine GPS Navigation Software
On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 21:01:47 +0200 Tobias Frost <tobi@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 08:10:48PM +0200, Alec Leamas wrote:
>> On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 19:05:21 +0200 Tobias Frost <tobi@debian.org> wrote:
>> All this said: do you think it's motivated to make such a patch?
>
> I guess. (Again being Debianite ;-))
OK, will do. Being Debianite is your role here, right?!
> Debianites are generally very sensitive about privacy, so any feature that
> "calls home"* feature is usually frowned upon; And this is kind of a side
> effect of a plugin manager that pulls stuff from the Internet…
I see the arguments and concur.
>> The plugins uses a CI build chain which supports the core architectures.
>> Plugins are built and uploaded automatically. They become available to
>> users when url and metadata is included in the catalog -- this is
>> semi-automatic process ending up in a PR against the catalog.
>
> For Debian core architecures means
> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBuster#Architectures
Just after pushing the Send button I knew that referring to Debian core
architectures was wrong. Our users basically either uses a PC or some
raspberry device; we support x86_64 and armhf when it comes to plugins.
Now, this should not really change anything. OpenCPN is perfectly usable
without any plugins, and builds fine on all Debian core platforms (sic!)
Cheers!
--alec
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