I have developed two scientific simulators of biological interest [1,2], and want to include them in Debian. As a former Debian user (currently using Ubuntu), and an avid FOSS supporter I want to make sure they get the deserved treatment getting included in major distributions, starting with Debian. I will focus for now in MMRRSim [2].
I admit the packaging literature is almost beyond me, and it took a while before I got the basics. I managed to get [2] working enough to build with debuild, with no major lintian warnings, and published to a PPA [3]. Code is managed using the bzr VCS, and from what I gather, good practices indicate I should provide a "pure tarball" branch [4], and a separate branch for packaging [5]. Being pure Perl applications, the initial packaging was facilitated by dh-make-perl [6]. Since I now have a basic working setup, I need some experienced eyes to scrutinize what may be missing in terms of policy, licensing (I am thinling GPL, but am open for other suggestions), and pointers to whatever else I need to get this child accepted into Debian school. I greatly appreciate any advice given, and look forward to participating in Debian! 1. https://launchpad.net/mmrrsim 2. https://launchpad.net/trepid 3. https://launchpad.net/~mmrrsim-developers/+archive/mmrrsim 4. https://code.launchpad.net/~philsf/mmrrsim/trunk 5. https://code.launchpad.net/~philsf/mmrrsim/mmrrsim-deb 6. http://packages.debian.org/dh-make-perl best regards FF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caevcxan9dtteeomb1u3shmppxsxbt71_djs1hbdodxsmund...@mail.gmail.com
