On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Mikko Rasa <t...@tdb.fi> wrote:
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> Have you considered in-source copies of the modified libraries?
Ehh. That's what subsurface has done since day#1 - even back when I
maintained it (long long ago), I refused to link against a dynamic
libdivecomputer, because the libdivecomputer versioning is broken, and
it's stupid to do dynamic linking for something that isn't shared
anyway.
The Debian people were crazy, and said "that's against our rules", and
wanted a separate libdivecomputer library.
These days, subsurface does its own libgit2 and libmarble due to
similar issues. No, not using git submodules, but in the build
scripts. And again, who complains?
So quite frankly, the fact that Debian people now attack Dirk, who has
been bending over backwards over these kinds of stupidities, is not a
big surprise. I think it's in the Debian DNA to care more about rules
than about technical sanity. The whole "this is the only right way to
do licensing" thing extends to "this is the only correct waty to do
packaging".
It's sad to see.
Linus
