Hi, are there any news about versioned tarballs of your software at genome-source.cse.ucsc.edu ?
Kind regards Andreas. On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 11:04:13AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi again, > > please see my additions inline! > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:52:35AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > Hi Hiram, > > > > I hope you don't mind if I'm putting Debian Med list in the discussion > > which I would like you to do in pure technical discussion as well. > > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:00:59AM -0700, Hiram Clawson wrote: > > > Good Evening Andreas: > > > > > > I'm curious if there would be a way to fit this building procedure > > > into the Debian-Med project: > > > > > > > > > http://genome-source.cse.ucsc.edu/gitweb/?p=kent.git;a=blob;f=src/userApps/README > > > > > > Note steps 1, 2, 3 near the top of the README after the 'System > > > Requirements' > > > discussion. > > > > > > I fully realize this isn't they way packages are supposed to work, but at > > > this time, this is the best we have. > > > > Simply from reading the README I can not see anything unusual. Step 1 > > (fetching the tarball) is totally normal workflow, > > Some correction to what I said here: Please provide a *versioned* > tarball! Every tarball should have a version to be able to detect updates. > > Moreover once I have checked the tarball I realised that the problematic > license which was discussed previously[0] remains. So *if* this software > should be distributed by Debian this needs to be fixed first. > > > step 2 is cd-ing to > > the unpackaged dir and call make is also pretty normal except that this > > make call is done by the debhelper tools. The only difference is step 3 > > where we do not move files to /usr/local but rather into /usr/bin inside > > the Debian package. > > > > > Perhaps there could be a way to > > > encapsulate these first three steps into some kind of building/packaging > > > business that would satisfy the standard build and packaging procedures ? > > > > Yes, for sure. That's the day job of a Debian packager. Do you want to > > learn how to do this? If yes we could offer mentoring in the so called > > Mentoring of the Month[1] effort. While there is right now the > > September slot occupied I would try hard to help you as well since if we > > want to get these tools included (and I would really love to see this) > > we need to start right now. > > > > So are you able to invest some time slots into the packaging and want to > > work together with us please subscribe this mailing lists (links should be > > given on the Wiki page[1]) and ask for help here in case of trouble or > > if you need some kickstart help. > > > > Thanks for your interest in Debian Med > > > > Andreas. > > > > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM > > [0] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-med-packaging/2014-March/025520.html > > -- > http://fam-tille.de > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140827090413.gc25...@an3as.eu > > -- http://fam-tille.de