Hi Yutong,
thanks for your quick reply.
:-)
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 09:28:19AM -0800, Yutong Zhao wrote:
> We're super excited to get OpenMM as part of the debian repos.
That's fine.
> To address your concerns:
>
> 1. Source files can be directly obtained from
> https://github.com/simtk/openmm. Releases are tagged at
> https://github.com/SimTk/openmm/releases. It should be simple to setup a
> watch script to monitor new tags/releases via github.
Every Debian package will be (and needs to be) build from source.
> We currently
> distribute pre-built binaries from simtk.org, but it sounds like you guys
> plan to build from source anyways.
As I said popularity contest is more about real usage (and not inly
> 2. We're OK with what ever deployment/maintenance options you think is best
> (Alioth, etc.). Having Debian download statistics would be really nice.
downloaded and deleted afterwards or installed but never used the
binaries).
Steffen reads both lists. :-)
> 3. We'd be happy to work with whoever (Steffan, CCed)
No problem. I'll let you know sson.
> to get this pushed
> through. Thanks for volunteering to do the initial inject.
Debian Med as well as DebiChem *is* actually pure Debian. We are just
> Some questions on our end:
>
> 1. Does getting this into DebianMed/DebiChem mean that users on
> ubuntu/debian will be able to simply do apt-get install openmm to fetch the
> package (without needing to add additional sources, etc.)?
projects (so called Debian Pure Blends) *inside* Debian caring for
medical+biological resp. chemical software. We are uploading straigt
to debian.org and Ubuntu will fetch from there in their 6 month sync
cycle.
For the moment yes. I'd welcome if you become a member of the project
> 2. What additional steps do we need to take on our end? Is
> https://github.com/rmcgibbo/openmm-debpackaging sufficient?
we finally decide to put the package into and than you can commit your
changes to git.debian.org. This would be more convenient and
transparent.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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