wanderine / BROCCOLI

BROCCOLI: Software for Fast fMRI Analysis on Many-Core CPUs and GPUs
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if you ever decide to package/maintain for (Neuro)Debian/Ubuntu -- I would gladly mentor/sponsor #23

Open yarikoptic opened 7 years ago

yarikoptic commented 7 years ago

(sponsor is sense of uploads to Debian ;) ) just wanted to reach out. unfortunately don't have time bandwidth to dive into it myself ATM

Cheers,

wanderine commented 7 years ago

It is on my to do list. What are the required / proposed steps for including a new software in neurodebian?

yarikoptic commented 7 years ago

ideally we/you should aim for inclusion into Debian proper, and NeuroDebian just as an additional benefit for easy backports. overall brief outline:

  1. prepare source package (.dsc, .orig.tar.gz, .debian.tar.gz), i.e. packaging, e.g. by following some example and/or glancing over packaging-tutorial (apt-get install packaging-tutorial) . I would recommend keeping in the same git report just in a debian branch off the master containing content of debian/ directory.
  2. make sure lintian tool is happy if given the .dsc file or then .changes of the build binary packages
  3. make sure that it builds fine in clean environments (i.e. all the build-dependencies specified etc). For that you might make use our quick and dirty set of helpers, see http://neuro.debian.net/blog/2012/2012-04-14_ndtools.html
  4. upload source package to mentors.debian.org and buzz me to review/feedback and/or just upload ;)