Re: packaging UCSC kent tools for debian-med
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
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