Re: Packaging from scratch

2013-06-05 Thread David Parsons
[3][4] which is also available in Debian as the "packaging-tutorial" package. [5] The typical recommended way I've seen to start packaging from scratch is to install 'devscripts' and 'dh-make', then expland the upstream source and run dh_make in the directory to

Re: Packaging from scratch

2013-06-05 Thread Chris Knadle
cumentation, I like Lucas Nussbaum's "Packaging Tutorial" [3][4] which is also available in Debian as the "packaging-tutorial" package. [5] The typical recommended way I've seen to start packaging from scratch is to install 'devscripts' and 'dh-make&#

Re: Packaging from scratch

2013-06-05 Thread Martin Eberhard Schauer
First of all, I'm very new here, my questions have probably already been answered (although I didn't find these answers...), please excuse me if it is so. I've been working on packaging something (a scientific tool for RNA sequence analysis) that has never been packaged You may be intereste

Re: Packaging from scratch

2013-06-05 Thread Gert Wollny
Hello, > 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 ? > I can not sponsor, and I have no idea about RNA sequencers et al, but your package might fit into the "Next generation

Re: Packaging from scratch

2013-06-05 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Hi, David Parsons 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 sour

Packaging from scratch

2013-06-05 Thread David Parsons
Hi, First of all, I'm very new here, my questions have probably already been answered (although I didn't find these answers...), please excuse me if it is so. I've been working on packaging something (a scientific tool for RNA sequence analysis) that has never been packaged neither in source