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 [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
