On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Iain R. Learmonth <i...@fsfe.org> wrote:
> Fell off the mailing list. > > Oops! My mistake. Sorry about that. > >> Have you read the Debian Med Group Policy yet? You can find that here: > >> > >> http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html > > > > Yes, I read it once. It is very detailed, which is good, but it means > that > > it has > > many things I did not understand. I'll go over it again (and again...) > > > > The Debian wiki is good for looking up things you don't understand > related to Debian packaging. > I went back for the basics and installed debian-policy, developers-reference and maint-guide and started reading. I think documentation is generally very good in Debian, so I expect the reading to go smoothly. > Well, you don't have to upload your source package to the Debian Med git > until you've got it working for the first version but you should sign up > for an account at least: > > https://alioth.debian.org/account/register.php > > OK. Will do that shortly. > > > Is Wheezy enough to work on packaging SleepyHead? Or do I need to > > setup a Jessy or Sid? > > > > I do my development work on Jessie. My understanding is that you can use > cowbuilder to build for Jessie while working on Wheezy, but I haven't > figured this out yet (Andreas builds my packages for upload as I am also > quite new). I'm making a local mirror of Jessie. I think having the files already here when I finish reading may be helpful even if I don't do a full install. > > > I've ordered the oximeter, but it's coming from China so it could be a > while (up to a month). > > It is good to know it will be there though. I'll look for other sources of test data too (after the reading ;)). Best regards, Ubiratan.
