Re: GNU HEALTH in Debian .- Was RE: Medetel - IWEEE - Contact info
Hi Luis,
I guess you do not mind if I'm posting to a public list. Please note
that we try to do *all* communication via this list because this helps
referencing to the list archive and we finally are an open project.
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:33:56PM -0300, Luis Falcon wrote:
> Dear Andreas
>
> We have started the creation of distro-specific packages for GNU
> Health. At the moment, we have the Archlinux version and we want to
> have the .deb
>
> Would you like to be the maintainer for it ?
In principle yes and as you might know we just started packaging under
http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/debian-med/trunk/packages/gnuhealth/trunk/
However, we are short before the next Debian Freeze and there is a real
lot to work on. I admit my time frame is limited to the just existing
packages even if I consider GNU Health a very important package for our
project. The best way to get it packaged is in my opinion if somebody
from GNU Health project gets a bit comfortable with packaging and we are
doing the packaging and testing work together. In other words: While we
have a lot of packaging experience in the Debian Med team but we have no
idea how to test the resulting package. It might help if somebody in
the GNU Health project would understand the packaging a bit to be able
to test intermediate packages and would be able to tweak things a bit.
We might be able to formalise this mentoring in a Mentoring of the Month
project:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM
Just tell me if you are interested.
> I'll be releasing 1.6.2 this week based on the latest default
> mercurial repository on Savannah, so probably it would be the version
> to start with the Debian package.
As you can see in the packaging SVN (see link above) we even started
with version 1.4.2 - I currently do not have time to check the
differences of both versions regarding packaging - but we do not need
to start from scratch. The VCS you are using to develop GNU Health
is not very important - we just grab the released tarball and maintain
the packaging in a VCS hosted at a debian.org site.
Just let me know what you think
Andreas.
>
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> > Hi Luis,
> >
> > I hope you do not mind if I quote you to the Debian Med mailing list
> > where we are coordinating all our packaging efforts
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 05:55:55PM -0300, Luis Falcon wrote:
> >>
> >> Cristina forwarded a mail about the idea of integrating GNU Health in
> >> Debian. As a Debian user, I will be more than happy to see Health in
> >> the coolest GNU/Linux distro :-)
> >>
> >> Now we have it also as a set of python modules, so it can be accessed from PyPI.
> >>
> >> The standard tar.gz is at GNU Savannah,
> >> https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/health/
> >>
> >> So, let us know how can we collaborate and include GNU Health in Debian.
> >
> > IMHO the best idea is if somebody of your team would have a look into
> > the preparation I did at
> >
> > svn://svn.debian.org/debian-med/trunk/packages/gnuhealth/trunk/
> >
> > where I just moved those files I formerly started at the URL I gave in
> > my first posting. Since then you obviosely have released several new
> > versions (congratulation to this active development in a short time
> > frame). It would be a quite good idea if somebody from your development
> > team would check this work whether it ends up with something useful with
> > your recent version. I admit I just adapted some metafiles to the new
> > name and made sure that "uscan --force-download" will work with the new
> > location. I do not expect that a useful package will be obtained by
> > just doing a 'debuild' because the debian/install file remains the
> > medical string - but there is probably other stuff to do and thus I
> > would like to leave this to interested hands with some more time I can
> > currently invest into this task.
> >
> > If you have any question about Debian packaging details you are
> > perfectly welcome to ask here on this list and we can cooperate to
> > finally prepare reasonable packages for an upload to the Debian mirror
> > as we talked about ad Med@Tel in Luxembourg.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Andreas.
> >
> >> Best
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 2011/4/12 Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>:
> >> > Hi Luis,
> >> >
> >> > it was nice to learn you to know and to learn about Medical.
> >> > BTW, my (very) quick shot at packaging Medical is at
> >> >
> >> > svn://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-med/trunk/packages/medical/trunk/
> >> >
> >> > The packaging is based on a changed tarball (not your original one)
> >> > which has one root diretory medical-1.0.1 and in this you have all the
> >> > files when unpacking your downloadable tarball. I would strongly
> >> > suggest to do the next release tarball according to this scheme.
> >> >
> >> > I would also suggest to do a
> >> >
> >> > find debian -name "*.xml" -type f -executable -exec chmod a-x \{\} \;
> >> > find debian -name "*.rml" -type f -executable -exec chmod a-x \{\} \;
> >> > find debian -name "*.po" -type f -executable -exec chmod a-x \{\} \;
> >> >
> >> > as well as something like:
> >> >
> >> > find debian -name "*.py" -type f -executable -exec chmod a-x \{\} \;
> >> >
> >> > for those Python modules which are not directly called.
> >> >
> >> > If you are interested in working on making a real Debian package feel
> >> > free to contact the Debian Med mailing list. I myself are lacking
> >> > deeper knowledge in Medical and thus can not do this work alone.
> >> >
> >> > Kind regards
> >> >
> >> > Andreas.
> >> >
> >> > On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 06:59:00PM -0300, Luis Falcon wrote:
> >> >> Dear all
> >> >>
> >> >> Thank you for sharing your time with us in Medetel and IWEEE. It's been a
> >> >> pleasure meeting you and having the opportunity to talk about our mission in
> >> >> delivering health and education with free software.
> >> >>
> >> >> Here is my email and contact info, so let's keep in touch. I'm looking
> >> >> forward to meeting you again soon.
> >> >>
> >> >> All the best,
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> Luis Falcón
> >> >> http://medical.sf.net
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > http://fam-tille.de
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Luis Falcón
> >> GNU Health
> >> health.gnu.org
> >>
> >
> > --
> > http://fam-tille.de
>
>
>
> --
> Luis Falcon
> GNU Health
> http://health.gnu.org
>
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