Re: Astronaut inclusion in Debian-med.
[Ignacio, I hope you will not mind if I'm answering your mail in
public shamelessly violating the netiquette, but I can not find
any private information in it and see a certain number of people
on the list who might be interested.]
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:40:38AM -0500, Ignacio Valdes wrote:
> You may remember me from Linux Medical News.
Sure. ;-)
Thanks for this service by the way.
> I have a apt-get/yum
> installable version of Veterans Affairs VistA called Astronaut VistA
> Installer Suite. Thousands of hours of preparation have gone into it.
> It is a reference implementation of the VistA Standard Base
> specification. It includes Astronaut editions of both OpenVista and
> WorldVistA in a common framework. It is tested in actual clinical
> situations and has many essential parts for private-sector use that
> are not currently present in other distributions. If you could include
> them in your debian-med distribution or a default pointer to the
> Astronaut apt-get repository http://software.astronautvista.com/deb
> that would be great.
I would love to place a hint at the Debian Med tasks page for hospital
information systems at
http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/his
However, the page you are linking above throws
403
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /deb/ on this server.
For the official inclusion into Debian: To include a package you need
to be able to build the package from source which in the case of VistA
means we need to packahe GT.M (Mumps) first - you are probably much
better informed about this than me. Bhaskar did some effort on this in
the last time [1-3] but it is not finished to my knowledge (Bhaskar, I
was about to ping you about this again and I'm just using this thread
which seems to fit).
So I have no idea in how far we might base on your (Ignacio) work to
proceed with the Debian packaging but in any case it would be
interesting to know that there is something out there as an intermediate
solution or as a template for Debian policy compliant packaging. If
you have further ideas how we might be able to speed up things - we
are interested in any case.
I would be really happy if you would subscribe to the Debian Med mailing
list[4] (in case you are not yet) where we try to discuss issues like
this. In any case we hope to provide news for your Web service from
time to time (like for instance FreeDiams will be included in next
official Dbeian release or something like this.
Kind regards and thanks for your input
Andreas.
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2009/08/msg00055.html
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2009/11/msg00055.html
[3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2010/02/msg00005.html
[4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/
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