Re: MediSnap - GPLv3 medical photo system - just released
Hi Jan,
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 09:05:42PM +0100, Jan Kechel wrote:
> > packaging pool. The latter is done usually by "sponsering" the package
> > by an official Debian Maintainer and I'm perfectly willing to do this
> > for you.
>
> Thats great!
That's simply ony of the main goals of Debian Med: Get mediacl Free
Software packaged into Debian and supporting others to help realising
this goal has turned out as quite effective.
> ok, got my alioth account: kechel-guest
Steffen has just added it to Debian Med while I was offline - it's just
cool to have a responsive team. :-)
> So the way to go would be to develop directly with alioth instead of
> sourceforge, or is alioth just meant to create packages out of releases,
> so e.g. push the source for a specific release and create the src and
> bin package ?
I had this discussion with another sponsee (I'm a tiny bit active also
in Debian Edu and wanted to sponsor one package there - the discussion
was on the debian-mentors list[1] because Debian Edu does not really
have a packaging team). The principle is simple: At first you download
an upstream tarball (usually of the latest upstream release - and you
told us here that there is such a release). This will be renamed to
<packagename>_<version>.orig.tar.gz
This archive will be untarred and than you create the debian/ directory
inside the root of the untarred files. Please have a look at dh_make
which creates quite reasonable templates - most of them are not really
used in your case. What we maintain in Debian is only the debian/ dir
including the patches which might be necessary (or not) to change the
upstream tarball. I think it becomes clear if you check out some
examples of Debian Med SVN.
> .. so should i now just continue and create a subfolder on my local disk
> an start building up the directory-structure of a debian-package?
> I saw that each project just maintains it's own subdirectory-tree at the
> Debian Med repository, so i would create
> debian-med/trunk/packages/medisnap then?
Yes. There you should commit
debian-med/trunk/packages/medisnap/trunk/debian
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] mails in the thread before and after might be interesting as well
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2011/01/msg00310.html
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