Re: Packaging from scratch
Hi,
David Parsons <david.parsons@inria.fr> writes:
> My first question is: Is it mandatory to provide a source package to
> distribute a binary one or is a tar.gz archive of the sources enough ?
A source package is required so that the binary packages can be
automatically generated for different architectures. The source package
usually means *.dsc + *.orig.tar.gz + *.debian.tar.gz but you should
check the policy for all the possible variations.
> As for now, the package I have built seems to do the job (I installed
> it and used the soft succesfully on a Virtual Machine), but I'm not
> sure I haven't missed something. Is there a tool to check a package
> for standard compliance ?
lintian -EvIL +pedantic *.dsc
is a good command to get started.
> Ultimately, when I manage to have a clean package, I will be looking
> for a sponsor. Would anyone here be interested in RNA-seq analysis and
> willing to help me ?
That might be a challenge since it's just a specialized field. I
personally try to only package software that I use to ensure that it
gets tested.
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