Bug#538067: deadline coming soon for OpenCPN

[Pavel Kalian <pavel@kalian.cz>]

Hi...
I'm an upstream developer and managing the PPA on Launchpad.
It certainly is more messy than needs to be, but it serves it's purpose,
which is to get the packages to the user in a way he can digest...
With the upcoming 4.0 release I have modularized the packages to certain
extent, separating the docs, tide data and GSHHS shorelines as they are
logical components.
I currently do no effort to clean the .orig sources off stuff not needed
on Linux, but it is on my list past the release.
We've put some effort into clarifying the license info etc. over time to
make packaging for Debian possible, but without further feedback from
you, finishing it in an acceptable way will keep having low priority -
we simply lack manpower to study the requirements in-depth.

Thanks for trying to clean up our mess

Pavel