[Neurodebian-devel] packages for iqr

[Ulysses Bernardet]

Hi Yaroslav,

I'm not sure I can follow you completely:  At the moment I'm creating
binary debian packages by invoking cpack from cmake. What would be the
next step? Create a source package?

Cheers, Ulysses



On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 20:55, Yaroslav Halchenko <debian at onerussian.com> wrote:
>
> NB are you on the list already so we could drop you off CC?
>
> > > why only binary???
> > Just wanted to get your attention :)  But seriously; I remember a long
> > while ago there was a discussion about the source tags and the
> > binaries not matching on sourceforge. This should be solved now. What
> > are the steps I should take?
>
> ultimate goal -- debian source package
>
> since you are using cmake (and as Michael pointed in a year ago thread)
> packaging should be quite straightforward... you can go through few
> tutorials available online (links below) or just see how packaging was
> done (content of debian/) for other packages we maintain, e.g. Michael's
> fslview which uses cmake:
> http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-exppsy/fslview.git
> (just build yours against qt4 not discontinued qt3)
>
> Alternatively here is another one which might be similar and a bit
> freshier: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-exppsy/libgdf.git
> etc
>
> so -- tutorials... let me just quote my reply elsewhere:
>
>    well -- usually it starts with dh_make ;)  alternatively you can look at
>    sources of any other similar package (apt-get source NAME   should get
>    the sources for you -- look into debian/ directory inside) and
>    proceed in similar fashion constructing your debian/ .  Also please skim
>    through Lucas' tutorial on debian packaging
>    http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=676 to get a generic sense of it
>    and tools which are in use
>
>    also for generic topics please glance over our recent blog post
>    http://neuro.debian.net/blog/2011/2011-08-23_getting_stuff_packaged.html
>    although I think those issues (versioning/licensing) do not
>    concern you already ;-)
>
>    to better assist you,  please let me know: do you have a
>    Debian-based system anywhere? otherwise what distro are you using
>    usually?
>
>
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