Bug#459637: ITP: mustang -- multiple structural alignment of proteins
Dear Andreas,
I would suggest that you might use the Debian-Med SVN for your packaging
stuff and you also might consider group maintainance in the Debian-Med
where you will most probably will also find a sponsor for your package.
Thank you for your warm welcome message!
Let me introduce myself:
I am a protein crystallographer with a major interest in methods
development and scientific computing. After ~10 years of packaging software
for the Redhat world, I switched to Ubuntu in May 07 and have been working
to repackage all the software we use in the lab for Debian/Ubuntu.
In the process, I have gotten involved with the nice group of MOTUs in
Ubuntu, and I have started contributing packages. I got a few into the
current Ubuntu release (7.10) and I am working on another bunch.
Unfortunately, a lot of the crystallographic software is closed
source/non-distributable, but I set the goal to submit all free software
packages to Debian (and Ubuntu) and maintain them.
The friendly Ubuntu developers encourage people to contribute their
packages to Debian as well, and "mustang" is my first attempt at that.
It's a simple single binary package without many troubles, although I
discussed a bit with the sponsors about including the PDB files in the
distribution, which they said could not be distributed due to license
issues (there is no license needed for scientific data IMHO). So I
repackaged the tarball to exclude them.
I would certainly like to work with you guys, I have joined the
debian-med-packaging list and look forward to getting to know you all there.
Feel free to ask if something remains unclear
I am using git to manage my packaging locally, and (although I have never
tried it) I think it is possible to interact with an svn repo. I'd like
some more info on how to get started using the debian-med svn repo!
Cheers,
Morten (aka mok0)
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Department of Molecular Biology, Aarhus University
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