Andreas - Thanks for the very helpful email. I think the mentoring for a month sounds wonderful. I have been working with Brady Miller discussing this topic am he suggested I contact since he doesn't have time to take this on. Currently we have a packaging script in GitHub that works to create a deb pkg but doesn't appear to conform to any of the deb standards.
I appreciate the reply while on vacation and will start reading the information you sent along. I start a new job in June but should be able to squeeze in getting this accomplished. Let me know how I proceed. Git is preferred over SVN since the rest of the project uses that exclusively. Ian Ian Wallace 303-681-5732 > On May 25, 2014, at 11:38 PM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Ian, > > I'm currently on vaccation but this mail seems important enough to at > least drop a short notice. > >> On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 09:27:16PM -0700, Ian Wallace wrote: >> Hello! Hope this isn't spamming the list but thought it would be best just >> to ask. I am a developer on the OpenEMR php source code and we'd love to >> start including the package in the official Debian distros. > > Mails like this are definitely no spam but the kind of mail we are > excited about and one of the reasons we have invented this list: To > get in contact with people we can work together to get packages of > high relevance done. > >> I have been reading lots of packaging, control files, etc and to be honest >> I am a bit lost as to exactly what to do for a non-makefile package. Since >> this is essentially a web application (PHP files only) there's no >> 'building' really just created a directory structure and packaging. Does >> it matter which tool we use to do that? Does it have to be a makefile? >> >> Thanks in advance. Any advice/pointers/URL's/howto's appreciated. > > As I said above I just want to drop a short notice: About two years ago > at Libre Software Meeting in Geneva I started some preliminary work on > OpenEMR which was based on the work of Brady Miller <[email protected]>. > Here you can find some past discussion about this: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2012/07/msg00362.html > > (and following thread in mailing list.) > > I do not really remember why this past discussion has stalled but the > according SVN I created for the Debian packaging here > > svn://anonscm.debian.org/debian-med/trunk/packages/openemr/trunk/ > > has not seen any commits since this time (except one automatic update I > pushed today). So how could we proceed from here to finally get OpenEMR > packaged? Since some time I'm running a teaching project called > Mentoring of the Month > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM > > which enabled us to get some quite interesting packages included into > Debian. Since I'm back from vacation at beginn of Juni we could start > doing this for OpenEMR together. Meanwhile you could have a look at > the relevant documentation we created for newcomers in our team which > is called "Debian Med team policy": > > http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html > > Here you will find useful hints how to start with the packaging. You > might also like to decide in advance what version control system you > might like to use. It has turned out that more and more people prefer > Git over SVN. I'd volunteer to migrate the stuff I created in SVN to > Git if you like this more. > > Kind regards and thanks for your interest > > Andreas. > > > -- > http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
