Re: [Bio-linux-dev] Bringing the Artemis package officially into Debian
Hi Afif,
Getting a proper Artemis package would be very good for Debian. I can't
find an ITP bug but the first mention of packaging I can find was back
in 1999 (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/07/msg00020.html).
So if this ITP was a person it would be old enough to leave home and get
married!
In 2009 Andreas had a crack at it:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2009/10/msg00105.html
In 2014 I talked to him briefly about it and I had a look myself. Came
to the conclusion it was definitely do-able, especially with recent work
of the Debian Java team packaging most libraries. But neither of us had
the time and inclination to work on it.
You can't find a source package for bio-linux-artemis (or any other
bio-linux-*) package because there isn't one. There is a directory on
our dev machine that is an unpacked version of the DEB (dpkg -x ...;
dpkg -e ...) and when I update it I manually put the new files into this
directory, edit DEBIAN/control and then I repack it (fakeroot dpkg
-b ...). The contents of the package is just the pre-compiled binary
version as distributed by Artemis.
I try to make proper source packages where possible, and to commit my
work to Alioth, but some (mainly Java) packages have defeated me. As
well as Artemis, there is
Tablet (https://ics.hutton.ac.uk/websvn/listing.php?repname=tablet),
Cytoscape (https://github.com/cytoscape/cytoscape),
RStudio (https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/)
and of course the infamous Taverna Workbench
(http://taverna.incubator.apache.org/download/code/).
But of those, Artemis seems the most obvious and probably the easiest
target. If you get stuck or want advice I'll try to help out however I
can. I'm not very good at monitoring the Deb Med mailing list but I am
on it and if you CC me I'll obviously see the message.
Cheers,
TIM
On Fri, 2015-09-18 at 00:24 -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm contacting you on behalf of your friends, the Debian Med team. I
> wanted to package Artemis for Debian and I saw that you all already had
> it packaged for Bio-Linux. I could not find the sources for your
> package, but I was wondering if you would mind moving them into Debian
> Med's VCS repositories so we can get it to be maintained as an official
> part of Debian and more users could benefit from your work.
>
> Please let me know if there's anything I can do to facilitate this.
>
> Many thanks and regards
> Afif
>
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Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
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