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vsbuffalo / scythe

A 3'-end adapter contaminant trimmer
MIT License
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Debian packaging system #27

Closed kdm9 closed 9 years ago

kdm9 commented 9 years ago

Hi Vince,

This Pull Request adds the config files needed to package scythe into Debian. I've got an intent-to-package bug filed, and I've volunteered to be the person responsible for keeping the Debian package up to date with your code.

This means that people will just be able to do an apt-get install scythe and they'll have scythe on the Debian boxes.

Theoretically, this would also allow someone to package it for ubuntu, mint or any other apt/dpkg based distros (though I don't have any plans to do so myself).

Cheers, Kevin

P.S., if you're not happy having this in the main code repo, I'm happy to host just the Debian specific parts in a separate repo, which happens a lot in the world of packaging, from what I can tell.

kdm9 commented 9 years ago

Sorry, forgot to mention: this is a work in progress, please don't merge yet! I'll probably have to change the config files once a debian developer reviews my work

kdm9 commented 9 years ago

The package is now uploaded for sponsorship, review and hopefully eventual acceptance into debian: http://mentors.debian.net/package/scythe

vsbuffalo commented 9 years ago

This is terrific, thanks!

I think a fork might be best, just to keep this repo clean (I moved the paper out of this repo for the same reason). I'm happy to host it if you like. Does that sound good?

kdm9 commented 9 years ago

OK, sure. I might re-submit some of the changes to the makefile as there are a couple of things that would be required to package with debian (e.g. appending to CFLAGS, not overwriting).

The other option is to use a debian branch in the main repo to hold this stuff, and then merge master in to do a release. See https://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit#Using_the_upstream_repo

kdm9 commented 9 years ago

Hi Vince,

Hope this finds you well.

I've made contact with Andreas Tille from Debian Med (which maintains all bioinformatics packages in Debian) about getting scythe into Debian. It is Debian Med policy that the packaging be in a debian-hosted git repo, separate to the source. Therefore I'll close this PR, and will additionally email you about some further requests they have.

Cheers, Kevin