Andreas - Thanks for the very helpful email. I think the mentoring for a month sounds wonderful. I have been working with Brady Miller discussing this topic am he suggested I contact since he doesn't have time to take this on. Currently we have a packaging script in GitHub that works to create a deb pkg but doesn't appear to conform to any of the deb standards.
I appreciate the reply while on vacation and will start reading the information you sent along. I start a new job in June but should be able to squeeze in getting this accomplished. Let me know how I proceed. Git is preferred over SVN since the rest of the project uses that exclusively.
Ian
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> On May 25, 2014, at 11:38 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
>
> Hi Ian,
>
> I'm currently on vaccation but this mail seems important enough to at
> least drop a short notice.
>
>> On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 09:27:16PM -0700, Ian Wallace wrote:
>> Hello! Hope this isn't spamming the list but thought it would be best just
>> to ask. I am a developer on the OpenEMR php source code and we'd love to
>> start including the package in the official Debian distros.
>
> Mails like this are definitely no spam but the kind of mail we are
> excited about and one of the reasons we have invented this list: To
> get in contact with people we can work together to get packages of
> high relevance done.
>
>> I have been reading lots of packaging, control files, etc and to be honest
>> I am a bit lost as to exactly what to do for a non-makefile package. Since
>> this is essentially a web application (PHP files only) there's no
>> 'building' really just created a directory structure and packaging. Does
>> it matter which tool we use to do that? Does it have to be a makefile?
>>
>> Thanks in advance. Any advice/pointers/URL's/howto's appreciated.
>
> As I said above I just want to drop a short notice: About two years ago
> at Libre Software Meeting in Geneva I started some preliminary work on
> OpenEMR which was based on the work of Brady Miller <brady@sparmy.com>.
> Here you can find some past discussion about this:
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2012/07/msg00362.html
>
> (and following thread in mailing list.)
>
> I do not really remember why this past discussion has stalled but the
> according SVN I created for the Debian packaging here
>
> svn://anonscm.debian.org/debian-med/trunk/packages/openemr/trunk/
>
> has not seen any commits since this time (except one automatic update I
> pushed today). So how could we proceed from here to finally get OpenEMR
> packaged? Since some time I'm running a teaching project called
> Mentoring of the Month
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM
>
> which enabled us to get some quite interesting packages included into
> Debian. Since I'm back from vacation at beginn of Juni we could start
> doing this for OpenEMR together. Meanwhile you could have a look at
> the relevant documentation we created for newcomers in our team which
> is called "Debian Med team policy":
>
> http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html
>
> Here you will find useful hints how to start with the packaging. You
> might also like to decide in advance what version control system you
> might like to use. It has turned out that more and more people prefer
> Git over SVN. I'd volunteer to migrate the stuff I created in SVN to
> Git if you like this more.
>
> Kind regards and thanks for your interest
>
> Andreas.
>
>
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