[Debian-med-packaging] Debian Med! (Was: Debian Med?)

[Michael Crusoe]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Tim Booth <avarus at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Two fairly simple ways to to do this:
>
> 1 - If you don't have the PPA set up on your sources.list:
>
> [Use the web interface to find the link to the relevant .dsc file]
> dget https://link/to/whatever.dsc
> dpkg-source -x *.dsc
>
> 2 - If you have set up the PPA in your sources.list
>
> apt-get source pkgname


Oh, I know how to rebuild from someone else's package. I was just
wondering if you had to do anything strange in the recipe for Arb when
you added it to your PPA. Perhaps you just uploaded a source package
and didn't set up an autobuilder:
https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/SourceBuilds/Recipes


> Cheers,
>
> TIM
>
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012, at 10:02 PM, Michael Crusoe wrote:
>> Whoops, I over snipped; my email was a reply to Tim.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Tim Booth <tbooth at ceh.ac.uk> wrote:
>> > Hi Michael,
>> >> > > I did have to rebuild arb for Ubuntu. I'd be happy to write a recipe
>> >> > > to build arb for the DebianMed PPA.
>> >
>> > I have a version here:
>> >
>> > https://launchpad.net/~nebc/+archive/bio-linux/+packages
>> >
>> > I didn't need to change much - I think I just had to rename the build
>> > dependencies to match the package names on Ubuntu and to ensure that
>> > Openmotif was available.
>>
>> Great. I can't find a way to download a recipe from someone else's
>> PPA. And pointers?
>>
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