Re: join list

[Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org>]

Le Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 07:01:49PM -0600, willhill a écrit :
> Hello, I'm a Debian user who just earned a MS in Medical Physics and
> I'd like to join this list.  My software is not Debian grade and I
> hope to learn how to fix that.  See my homepage to learn more.
> 
> http://phys.lsu.edu/~willhill/

Dear Will,

thank you for your mail. You are of course welcome to join our list. If
your interests are also nuclear physics, you may also be interested by
debian-science@lists.debian.org alternatively.

I did not understand if by "Debian grade" you mean "packaged" or "good
for packaging". The Debian-Med project does a lot of packaging and we
can help you for this (altghough if your programs are of a broader scope
than medical imaging, I'd suggest to transfer the discussion on
debian-science. Many of us are on both lists anyway).

If by "Debian grade" you mean "good for packaging", then here is a list
of hints:

 - The program must be of broad interest (for instance, have users that
   are not direct friends or colleagues of you).
 - Its sources must be portable: the Debian packge are build on
   big-endian, little-endian, 32 bits, 64 bits,… many different
   platforms.
 - It should not use duplicated code: we try to dynamically link to
   libraries packaged in Debian. If you need some libraries to be
   modified, it would be better to at least contact upstream before
   shipping a forked copy.
 - It must not use executable names that are too generic. /usr/bin is
   very crowded in a Debian environment, and our packages must not fight
   for the same name there.

Have a nice Sunday,

-- 
Charles Plessy
http://charles.plessy.org
Wakō, Saitama, Japan