On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Smith, Todd wrote:
> I personally have not tried to build a legal Debian package so I don't
> really know what is involved,
For the most cases it is simply a
configure
make
make install prefix=<debian-package-dir>
For more complex software packages it is generally necessary to split the
stuff into more than one Debian packages, care for some special configuration
etc. In short: The Debian maintainer has to put all installation stuff into
scripts which work on *every* Debian machine. How hard this is depends
mainly from the documentation and robustness of the install process.
Finally building a Debian package is not really hard if you are able to
manage installation from scratch.
> but I not really sure that VistA is usable
> without work on the user's part. Installing the product is the least of
> your worries.
Well, but it is the first hurdle you will be faced to and we could help
users to take this with one simple step.
Kind regards
Andreas.
