[Debian-med-packaging] status of meme Debian packaging

[Faheem Mitha]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2013, Andreas Tille wrote:

> Hi Faheem,
>
> thanks for your interest into Debian Med.
>
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 01:39:24AM +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was looking for a Debian package of meme, and discovered there is
>> some packaging at
>>
>> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-med/trunk/packages/meme/tr
>>
>> I'm writing to ask - is this packaging ready for use? The current
>> version of meme as I write is 4.9.
>
> I have to admit that I'm not sure whether version 4.9 will work with the
> packaging.  The last time I checked it was with version 4.8.  I can
> confirm that this package has high priority also for BioLinux and I
> could imagine that we will try to push it at our next Sprint[1].
>
> If you honestly want to try the packaging I'd recommend checking out
> the debian/ dir increase the version number in debian/changelog and
> try debuild.  Feel free to report problems with this approach here
> and we are also interested in case of success.
>
> Please stay in contact about meme with us

Thanks for the fast reply, Andreas.

I'll give it a shot, and let you know what happens.

                                    Regards, Faheem