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Dirk Hohndel (dirk-3) wrote : Re: [Bug 1448240] Re: please drop Subsurface

My apologies - we are a few days away from releasing Subsurface 4.5 - almost certainly
before wily will be released. So I wasn't going to bother with 4.4.2 for that. Daily builds
for wily are available - so those testing pre-release Ubuntu can also test pre-release
Subsurface :-)

/D

> On Oct 11, 2015, at 9:21 AM, Daniel Holbach <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> The package does not seem to exist in wily anymore.
>
> Can it be added to the PPA for wily?
>
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> Title:
> please drop Subsurface
>
> Status in subsurface package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> The Subsurface team is making current packages available from their
> PPA. These packages don't follow the packaging guidelines as they
> include forked libraries (libmarble and libdivecomputer). The changes
> in these libraries have 0% chance of being accepted upstream, yet not
> using those libraries gives inferior user experience.
>
> The Subsurface package in Ubuntu is a few versions behind upstream (we
> currently ship 4.4.1 and are planning for 4.5) - we have about 300
> users of our own 4.4.1 binaries from our PPA on various Ubuntu
> versions.
>
> I'd appreciate if this package was dropped from Ubuntu to avoid end
> user confusion.
>
> This concerns all versions of Ubuntu, but we actively provide packages
> for 14.04, 14.10, and 15.04
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