Re: Galaxy project producing their own Debian packages

On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Michael Crusoe <michael.crusoe@gmail.com> wrote:

Nate,

Nearly all of Galaxy's dependencies are now packaged. Would you be interested in joining our Mentoring of the Month program to package Galaxy for Debian yourself?

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM

In many ways it may turn out to be an easy package and what ever issues arise you are well positioned to make the needed changes in Galaxy itself.

If you think this is the best way to do it, sure. That said, I am relatively familiar with Debian packaging, having done a bit of source package tinkering/rebuilding over the years. My knowledge gap is with the actual process of getting a package cleared and admitted into Debian proper, but I suspect this wouldn't be too difficult to pick up.

Galaxy is not ready yet, unfortunately. The goal is to have all of the necessary components in the 16.07 release (the freeze for which is any day now). This PR will need to be merged prior to the 16.07 branch:

https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/pull/921

If that doesn't happen, it won't be possible until 16.10. Thankfully, if I understand the Debian release process, we have until January 2017 for this to make it in to stretch.

--nate

Thanks again!

Hoopla,

I'm at the Galaxy Community Conference sitting next to Nate Coraor.

Nate is enthusiastic about Galaxy becoming properly packaged for Debian. He is well aware of how hacky his current package is :-)

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Olivier Sallou <olivier.sallou@irisa.fr> wrote:

On 06/16/2016 08:43 AM, Michael Crusoe wrote:
>
> Vezi Tweetul lui @natefoo:
> https://twitter.com/natefoo/status/743306923026440194
>
> https://depot.galaxyproject.org/nate/dpkg/
>

nice, but easy for them. Galaxy installs many things at run time from
remote locations (pypi and others). So not easy to fit in Debian as all
dependencies not to be Debian packages.

Olivier

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