On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 12:41:24PM +0100, Tim Booth wrote: > Getting a proper Artemis package would be very good for Debian. I can't > find an ITP bug but the first mention of packaging I can find was back > in 1999 (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/07/msg00020.html).
Stephane Bortzmeyer was probably the first one who packaged biological software. He became inactive in Debian and I took over all his package into Debian Med. So we can assume that we are free to do with this package to do what we want. > So if this ITP was a person it would be old enough to leave home and get > married! > > In 2009 Andreas had a crack at it: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2009/10/msg00105.html Stephane might get married and I became grandfather over it. ;-) > In 2014 I talked to him briefly about it and I had a look myself. Came > to the conclusion it was definitely do-able, especially with recent work > of the Debian Java team packaging most libraries. But neither of us had > the time and inclination to work on it. For me artemis is similar to igv. While igv has a free license we never managed to get all its internal JARs packaged. Since somebody else did igv I did not mind but I personally try hard to get a package "fully" done (like I did with beast-mcmc - even if there is one non-free dependency it is at least built from source ...) > I try to make proper source packages where possible, and to commit my > work to Alioth, but some (mainly Java) packages have defeated me. As > well as Artemis, there is > Tablet (https://ics.hutton.ac.uk/websvn/listing.php?repname=tablet), > Cytoscape (https://github.com/cytoscape/cytoscape), I once stumbled upon this and have not even understood what upstream provides as "source tarball" ... > RStudio (https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/) It would be really cool if we would get this packaged. My colleagues are using it. The ITP #617296 was recently turned into RFP - so if somebody wants to work on this it would be also helpful. > and of course the infamous Taverna Workbench > (http://taverna.incubator.apache.org/download/code/). > > But of those, Artemis seems the most obvious and probably the easiest > target. If you get stuck or want advice I'll try to help out however I > can. I'm not very good at monitoring the Deb Med mailing list but I am > on it and if you CC me I'll obviously see the message. I usually keep you in CC if a thread that I want you to read is started ... Thanks for your insight Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de