diff --git a/packaging/copr/make-package.sh b/packaging/copr/make-package.sh
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+#!/bin/bash -e
+# start from the directory above the subsurface directory
+#
+# we need to build the google maps plugin which is not part of our sources, so let's make sure
+# it is included in our source tar file
+#
+# a lot of this is redundant with the OBS code - but I'm trying to make both of these scripts reasonably
+# complete so a user could simply run one of them and not the other - well, of course a user would have
+# to make changes as they can't write to the OBS/COPR repos that I own... but this should be a great
+# starting point.
+
+if [[ $(pwd | grep "subsurface$") || ! -d subsurface || ! -d subsurface/libdivecomputer ]] ; then
+	echo "Please start this script from the folder ABOVE the subsurface source directory"
+	exit 1;
+fi
+if [[ ! -d googlemaps ]] ; then
+	echo "Please make sure you have the current master of https://github.com/Subsurface/googlemaps"
+	echo "checked out in parallel to the Subsurface directory"
+	exit 1;
+fi
+
+# ensure that the libdivecomputer module is there and current
+cd subsurface
+git submodule init
+git submodule update
+cd -
+
+GITVERSION=$(cd subsurface ; git describe --abbrev=12 | sed -e 's/-g.*$// ; s/^v//')
+GITREVISION=$(echo $GITVERSION | sed -e 's/.*-// ; s/.*\..*//')
+VERSION=$(echo $GITVERSION | sed -e 's/-/./')
+GITDATE=$(cd subsurface ; git log -1 --format="%at" | xargs -I{} date -d @{} +%Y-%m-%d)
+LIBDCREVISION=$(cd subsurface/libdivecomputer ; git rev-parse --verify HEAD)
+FOLDER="subsurface-$VERSION"
+
+echo "building Subsurface" $VERSION "with libdivecomputer" $LIBDCREVISION
+
+# we put all of the files into the distrobuilds directory in order not to clutter the 'src' directory
+mkdir -p distrobuilds
+cd distrobuilds
+
+if [[ ! -d $FOLDER ]]; then
+	mkdir $FOLDER
+	echo "copying sources"
+
+	(cd ../subsurface ; tar cf - . ) | (cd $FOLDER ; tar xf - )
+	cd $FOLDER
+	cp -a ../../googlemaps .
+
+	rm -rf .git libdivecomputer/.git googlemaps/.git build build-mobile libdivecomputer/build googlemaps/build
+	echo $GITVERSION > .gitversion
+	echo $GITDATE > .gitdate
+	echo $LIBDCREVISION > libdivecomputer/revision
+	cd ..
+fi
+
+if [[ ! -f rpmbuild/SOURCES/subsurface-$VERSION.orig.tar.xz ]] ; then
+	tar ch $FOLDER | xz > rpmbuild/SOURCES/subsurface-$VERSION.orig.tar.xz
+fi
+
+# if the user wanted to post this automatically, do so
+#
+# because in the normal flow we should never have the need to rev the Release number in the spec
+# file, this is hard coded to 1 - it's entirely possible that there will be use cases where we
+# need to push additional versions... but it seems impossible to predict what exactly would drive
+# those and how to automate them
+if [[ "$1" = "post" ]] ; then
+	# daily vs. release
+	if [[ "$GITREVISION" == "" ]] ; then
+		# this is a release
+		echo "RELEASE PROCESS IS NOT WELL TESTED"
+		REPO="Subsurface"
+		DESCRIPTION="This is the official Subsurface build, including our own custom libdivecomputer."
+	else
+		REPO="Subsurface-test"
+		DESCRIPTION="This is a test build of Subsurface, provided by the Subsurface team, based on the latest sources. Only use if you need the bleeding edge of development."
+	fi
+	cd rpmbuild
+	cat ../../subsurface/packaging/copr/subsurface.spec | sed "s/%define latestVersion.*/%define latestVersion $VERSION/;s/DESCRIPTION/$DESCRIPTION/" > SPECS/subsurface.spec
+	rpmbuild --verbose -bs $(pwd)/SPECS/subsurface.spec
+	copr build $REPO $(pwd)/SRPMS/subsurface-$VERSION-1.fc*.src.rpm
+fi
diff --git a/packaging/copr/subsurface.spec b/packaging/copr/subsurface.spec
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+#
+# Fedora COPR spec file for package subsurface
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2014-2022 Dirk Hohndel
+#
+
+%define latestVersion 0.0.0.0
+
+Name:           subsurface
+Version:	%latestVersion
+Release:        1%{?dist}
+
+Summary:        A test build of the latest development version of Subsurface
+
+License:        GPL v2
+Url:            http://subsurface-divelog.org
+
+Source:		subsurface-%latestVersion.orig.tar.xz
+
+Group:          Productivity/Other
+
+BuildRequires:  desktop-file-utils
+BuildRequires:  fdupes
+BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
+BuildRequires:  make
+BuildRequires:  asciidoc
+BuildRequires:  autoconf
+BuildRequires:  automake
+BuildRequires:  libtool
+BuildRequires:  cmake
+BuildRequires:  libzip-devel
+BuildRequires:  libxml2-devel
+BuildRequires:  libxslt-devel
+BuildRequires:  libssh2-devel
+BuildRequires:  libcurl-devel
+BuildRequires:  libgit2-devel
+BuildRequires:  libmtp-devel
+BuildRequires:  netpbm-devel
+BuildRequires:  openssl-devel
+BuildRequires:  libsqlite3x-devel
+BuildRequires:  libusbx-devel
+BuildRequires:  bluez-libs-devel
+BuildRequires:  qt5-qtbase-devel
+BuildRequires:  qt5-qttools-devel
+BuildRequires:  qt5-qtwebkit-devel
+BuildRequires:  qt5-qtsvg-devel
+BuildRequires:  qt5-qtscript-devel
+BuildRequires:  qt5-qtdeclarative-devel
+BuildRequires:  qt5-qtbase-mysql
+BuildRequires:  qt5-qtbase-postgresql
+BuildRequires:  qt5-qtbase-ibase
+BuildRequires:  qt5-qtbase-odbc
+BuildRequires:  qt5-qtbase-tds
+BuildRequires:  qt5-qtconnectivity-devel
+BuildRequires:  qt5-qtlocation-devel
+BuildRequires:  libappstream-glib
+
+Recommends:     qt5-qttranslations
+
+%description
+DESCRIPTION
+
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+
+
+
+%build
+# we need to temporarily install the output of our two included dependency in order to use those
+# when building Subsurface - yes, this is ugly. But since we have private versions of these two
+# libraries, this is the most reasonable approach...
+mkdir -p install-root
+(cd libdivecomputer ; \
+        autoreconf --install ; \
+        CFLAGS="-fPIC -g -O2" ./configure --prefix=%{_builddir}/install-root --bindir=%{_builddir}/install-root/bin --libdir=%{_builddir}/install-root/lib --includedir=%{_builddir}/install-root/include --disable-examples ; \
+        make %{?_smp_mflags} ; \
+        make install)
+( cd googlemaps ; mkdir -p build ; cd build ; \
+        qmake-qt5 ../googlemaps.pro ; \
+        # on Fedora 36 and newer we get the package_notes that break the build - let's rip them out
+        sed -i 's/-Wl[^ ]*package_note[^ ]* //g' Makefile
+        make -j4 ; \
+        make install_target INSTALL_ROOT=%{_builddir}/install-root )
+%cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
+                -DMAKE_TESTS=OFF \
+                -DLRELEASE=lrelease-qt5 \
+                -DLIBDIVECOMPUTER_INCLUDE_DIR=%{_builddir}/install-root/include \
+                -DLIBGIT2_INCLUDE_DIR=%{_builddir}/install-root/include \
+                -DLIBDIVECOMPUTER_LIBRARIES=%{_builddir}/install-root/lib/libdivecomputer.a \
+                -DNO_PRINTING=OFF \
+                .
+%cmake_build
+
+%install
+mkdir -p %{buildroot}/%{_libdir}
+( cd googlemaps/build ; make install_target INSTALL_ROOT=%{buildroot} )
+%cmake_install
+install subsurface.debug %{buildroot}%{_bindir}
+install appdata/subsurface.appdata.xml %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/metainfo
+desktop-file-install --dir=%{buildroot}/%{_datadir}/applications subsurface.desktop
+
+%fdupes %{buildroot}
+
+%post
+%desktop_database_post
+/sbin/ldconfig
+
+%postun
+%desktop_database_post
+/sbin/ldconfig
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%doc gpl-2.0.txt README.md ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotes.txt
+%{_bindir}/subsurface*
+%{_libdir}/qt5/plugins/geoservices/libqtgeoservices_googlemaps.so
+%{_datadir}/applications/subsurface.desktop
+%dir %{_datadir}/metainfo
+%{_datadir}/metainfo/subsurface.appdata.xml
+%{_datadir}/icons/hicolor/*/apps/subsurface-icon.*
+%{_datadir}/subsurface/
+
+
+%changelog