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

[Philippe Cerfon <philcerf@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : subsurface
  Version         : 4.5.6
  Upstream Author : Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>
* URL             : https://subsurface-divelog.org/
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description     : scuba diving logbook

Apparently, subsurface had previously been packaged for
Debian but got removed (#789875) due to some questionable
wish by upstream (according to their website they consider
distribution packaging "deprecated") as well as the problems
that were caused by libgit2 having some unstable API.

Now it seems that subsurface is however packaged for most
(all?) other major distros:
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/subsurface
https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home:Subsurface-Divelog&package=subsurface
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/subsurface/
https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-misc/subsurface

So I'm kinda missing the point why it shouldn't be possible
to have so for Debian.
AFAICS, upstream has anyway factually forked libgit2 and
libdivecomputer, so these could be used and the problems
mentioned in #789875 would be moot.

As for upstream's wish not to package it:
Well that seems a bit questionable as for the general open
source / distros model.
Right now, upstream doesn't even seem to provide packages
for Debian but suggests people to use their Ubuntu packages.
Also, it seems simply plain wrong to encourage not to use a
proper package management system here - Debian users
loose any security support and a secure way to get the
software not to talk about proper Debian integration and
community support.

Cheers.