[Debian-med-packaging] Query about GNU Health Deb packaging

[Emilien Klein]

Hi Constantine,

2013/4/22 Kostis Mousafiris <kvisitor at gnugr.org>:
> Dear Emilien,
>
> as I was browsing the Debian Med page
> http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/his.pt.html
> I realized that there is work under progress in order to produce deb packages for GNU health.
> I wrote a mail to Luis Falcon and he pointed me towards you.
> So there I am... I was wondering if you could inform me as to the precise status of this effort.
> Should I be looking for something concrete to come out in the foreseeable future??
> Thanx a lot

Actually GNU Health version 1.8.0 is already packaged in Debian
Experimental. Since it depends on Tryton 1.6, we're waiting for that
version to migrate to Debian Sid (unstable) before being able to move
GNU Health there.

You can install the Debian package by adding the experimental
repositories (reminder: not good for production use yet!):
Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian experimental main

Then run these 2 commands:
$ sudo aptitude update
$ sudo aptitude -t experimental install gnuhealth

The 1.8.0-1 package in Debian experimental is in no way finished: it
now supposes that the user will execute the steps to create a database
user, etc. manually. I'm currently working on packaging 1.8.1 in
Experimental and having more of those steps automated. See [0] for a
non-definitive list of tasks we still have to work on.

Please try package 1.8.0-1 out, and let us know what you think is still missing!
FYI the steps to perform are listed in README.Debian (in
/usr/share/gnuhealth I believe) once you have installed the package on
your system.
   +Emilien
[0] http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-med/trunk/packages/gnuhealth/trunk/debian/TODO.Debian?view=markup