Andreas - As always you have been very helpful. Will checkout the git repo and start working on the files. I was reading section 4 "Required Files Under Debian Directory" so I have plenty of work to do. If I have problems logging into Alioth will let you know.
More news soon. Will keep my report short tonight. I have uploaded my public key to gain access for SSH and need to just wait for cron to update my authorized_keys file in under an hour. cheers ian On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 12:18 AM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ian, > > thanks for your MoM report (which I answer on list). > > On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 10:29:43PM -0700, Ian Wallace wrote: > > Andreas - I created my account and someone responded (I think) granting > me > > access. > > Yes, this is done as I checked. > > > Currently I was finishing reading the FHS stuff and started on the > > New Maintainers' Guide (which is very helpful). In parallel I was > figuring > > out how phpmyadmin is packaged for Debian and they seem to have a lot of > > the same problems that we have (need a web server with a configuration, > > need the MySQL configuration, etc). I will start looking through there > > files in the 'debian' directory for help with figuring out what might be > > helpful to use again in the OpenEMR project. > > Fine. To simplify your work I moved the current packaging from SVN to > git (as promised previously). I injected the latest upstream source as > pristine-tar and added you as Uploader. You are also the owner of the > changelog entry to stress the fact that you intend to work on this > package. Please note that the resulting binary package content remains > empty - so it will be up to you to properly move around the files. I > also noted that lintian - the Debian policy checker - found a lot of > issues with compressed JavaScript files which we will need to deal with. > If you have no idea what this means just ignore it for this moment - we > come back later to this once we have something to work with. > > > I think the hardest thing might be that the current version of OpenEMR > > really thinks that most of it's files live in /var/www and not the > various > > directories that FHS prescribes. I know that there's a globals.php file > > that sets most of the directories but it's going to take some looking > into. > > In cases like this it might help to work with symlinks but in any case it > might make sense to teach OpenEMR developers about FHS. > > > Once I have access to alioth should I start committing my 'debian' files > to > > that the openemr repo? > > Yes, please do so. Just do not hesitate to commit anything you have. You > can not break anything since the packaging is just broken. > > > Do you have one created or do I need to do that? > > See above. I recommend to check it out using > > gbp-clone ssh://git.debian.org/git/debian-med/openemr.git > > > I > > need to talk with the upstream developers as well on the naming > convention > > - they have the releases as 4.1.2 (patch 5) and I am wondering if it > would > > be easier to just call it 4.1.2.5 or should I just increment the Debian > > release number each time a patch is issued. > > You could perfectly use 4.1.2p5 or even 4.1.2.5 if you simply adapt the > debian/watch file to do the substitution. The most important thing is > that upstream will provide download files that will let us distinguish > between these patch levels. > > > First things first ... will gain access to the alioth server via ssh so > > that I can commit and then start on other tasks. > > Yup. :-) > > > Battery is about to die on laptop ... that's all for tonight. > > Hope your battery is recharged once you read this mail. :-) > > Kind regards > > 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] > > -- Ian Wallace - CCRMC DFM Staff Physician - (c) 303.681.5732
