Hey Andreas,

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Jorge,
>
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 02:05:14PM +0000, Jorge Sebastião Soares wrote:
> >
> > At the moment, asmlib is being distributed as a set of binaries together
> > with the KMC source:
> > kmc <https://github.com/js21/kmc> / kmer_counter
> > <https://github.com/js21/kmc/tree/master/kmer_counter> / *libs* /
>
> Correct, we need a separate package build from source code.
>
>
Cool.


> > Even though asmlib are sets of instructions for intel chips, this doesn't
> > seem like the way to create a Debian package as the binaries would be
> > heavily dependent on the architecture where they were built.
> >
> > The logical thing to do, having spoken to Sascha would be to package
> asmlib
> > as well.
>
> +1
>
>
;)



> > The point of this email is essentially to express a will to package
> asmlib
> > but, since asmlib is more of a generic thing and not Debian Med only, to
> > confirm that I can do the packaging through Debian Med. Also some help
> with
> > packaging of assembly code would be great. Sascha is willing to help on
> > this side, but he has lots of other htings to do as well.
>
> It would not be the first time that we are keeping generic non-medical
> preconditions for packages in our focus inside the Debian Med
> repositories.  So this is no problem in general.  Just commit to Debian
> Med Git and see how far you might proceed.  I admit I have no experience
> with machine code and you probably need to ask for help on other channels
> (like [email protected] or so).
>
>
Brilliant.
I'm on it. Thanks for the debian-mentors tip.

Regards,

Jorge

Reply via email to