Bug#824520: Just don't

[Philippe Cerfon <philcerf@gmail.com>]

Hey Salvo.


Well I've seen that discussion and upstream seems to be pretty hostile
against distributions (and apparently security as well). :-(

On the other hand, Debian now unfortunately lacks subsurface packages
(while other distros have them, or at least more well integrating
repos). So people may simply use the questionable packages provided by
upstream (which are for the average user only secured by worthless
https), which in turn may again decrease security for people.

As you've said, libdivecomputer is probably not the problem, while
it's already packaged for Debian, that version seems to be used by at
least no package.

And marble and libgit2: isn't libgit only used locally for storing the
logs? Marble is of course an issue. it would be very sad if one could
not longer see the dive sites on the globe. But better than nothing at
all.
Do you think it's difficult to get subsurface working with the
official marble libs?


Apart from that, many even major packages in Debian seem to ship their
copies of libs (e.g. I think ffmpeg uses many internal copies for
which official packages exist). So it's not that uncommon, of course
it's a pity, but sometimes better than nothing.

Best wishes!