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Am 10.09.2016 um 06:59 schrieb Raymond Jennings: |
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> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 4:04 AM, Marek Szuba <marecki@g.o |
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> <mailto:marecki@g.o>> wrote: |
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> # Martin Gysel <me@××××××.org <mailto:me@××××××.org>> via g-p-m (09 |
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> Sep 2016) |
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> # Versions currently in Portage are old and block removal of other |
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> # packages. Current versions require building against modified versions |
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> # of dev-libs/libdivecomputer and kde-apps/marble which must be fetched |
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> # from Git, and which are not versioned (upstream uses branch tags). |
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> # Finally, upstream considers distribution-maintained packages |
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> deprecated. |
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> # Removal in 30 days. |
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> app-misc/subsurface |
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> +1. Any package whose upstream says "don't build this yourself" is |
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> hostile to open source principles. |
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just to make it clear, upstream never said such thing nor are they in |
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any way hostile to open source principles (I suppose you wouldn't state |
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that if you know subsurface's developers). subsurface is open source but |
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that does not mean that its developers have to care about every distro |
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or way to distribute it. history has shown for them that it not really |
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feasible to do so give the number of active contributes. furthermore |
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there were valid reasons for them to 'fork' some of subsurface's deps. |
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/martin |
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