Excellent, please * get an account on salsa.debian.org and request membership with the med-team * find a tutorial on how git works, not to know everything but so you can distinguish branches from tags * have a Debian machine (or a cloud/docker instance) with Debian unstable so you can install build dependencies and test your package * find a time to sync up with on one of the upcoming evenings for a live session - we are both on central European summer time? The process is - install git-buildpackage - gbp clone --pristine-tar https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/bcftools - do the right set of changes, commit them locally - gbp buildpackage - test, push changes back to salsa - request sponsoring
For any questions that arise in between just send me an email and I answer as soon as I can. * have a peek at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tApLhVqxRZ2VOuMH_aPUgFENQJfbLlB_PFH_Ah_q7hM/edit?usp=sharing and to see if there is a software close to your heart that you would want to see prepared for the distribution - feel free to add something Best, Steffen On 15.06.20 01:01, Giulio Genovese wrote:
Hi Steffen, Yes, that would be great. I didn't even know there was a three tier of mandatory/recommended/suggested packages, or I would have suggested the same solution you proposed to begin with. I am a bit new to this so I would be happy to help in the way I can if you want to talk me through it. Feel also free to write to me on my personal email account. Giulio On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 6:51 PM Steffen Möller <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Giulio, How would you like the idea to have both Perl and Python as recommended and only leave the latex as suggested? What should then happen is that we place this as a bug report against bcftools. The maintainer (should) see(s) this and you will be informed when the upload happened that implements your suggestion. I expect this to be associated with an upcoming new upstream version, but, hey, we have the Covid-19 hackathon this week, feel free have this as your first active contribution if there are no ultimate negative vibes emerging on this list about a demotion of the strict dependency on Perl. I happily talk you through. To shorten bits up, I have just created the bug report - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=962834 <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=962834> . Thank you tons for your feedback. Please keep it coming. Steffen
