Re: Advice/pointers for new package
Hi
This discussion is really interesting. All medical application are welcome in debian med.
I am not a debian guru but If I can help you, I will. Feel free to ask.
Éric, freemedforms.com
Le 26 mai 2014 à 16:06, Ian Wallace <iankarlwallace@gmail.com> a écrit :
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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:
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>> 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
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>> 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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>> http://fam-tille.de
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