[Debichem-devel] OpenMM package for Debian/Ubuntu

[Robert McGibbon]

This is exciting.

I'm happy to move the code at
https://github.com/rmcgibbo/openmm-debpackaging. I just put it there so I
didn't lose it.

-Robert


On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:

> Hi Yutong,
>
> thanks for your quick reply.
>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 09:28:19AM -0800, Yutong Zhao wrote:
> > We're super excited to get OpenMM as part of the debian repos.
>
> :-)
>
> > To address your concerns:
> >
> > 1. Source files can be directly obtained from
> > https://github.com/simtk/openmm. Releases are tagged at
> > https://github.com/SimTk/openmm/releases. It should be simple to setup a
> > watch script to monitor new tags/releases via github.
>
> That's fine.
>
> > We currently
> > distribute pre-built binaries from simtk.org, but it sounds like you
> guys
> > plan to build from source anyways.
>
> Every Debian package will be (and needs to be) build from source.
>
> > 2. We're OK with what ever deployment/maintenance options you think is
> best
> > (Alioth, etc.). Having Debian download statistics would be really nice.
>
> As I said popularity contest is more about real usage (and not inly
> downloaded and deleted afterwards or installed but never used the
> binaries).
>
> > 3. We'd be happy to work with whoever (Steffan, CCed)
>
> Steffen reads both lists. :-)
>
> > to get this pushed
> > through. Thanks for volunteering to do the initial inject.
>
> No problem.  I'll let you know sson.
>
> > Some questions on our end:
> >
> > 1. Does getting this into DebianMed/DebiChem mean that users on
> > ubuntu/debian will be able to simply do apt-get install openmm to fetch
> the
> > package (without needing to add additional sources, etc.)?
>
> Debian Med as well as DebiChem *is* actually pure Debian.  We are just
> projects (so called Debian Pure Blends) *inside* Debian caring for
> medical+biological resp. chemical software.  We are uploading straigt
> to debian.org and Ubuntu will fetch from there in their 6 month sync
> cycle.
>
> > 2. What additional steps do we need to take on our end? Is
> > https://github.com/rmcgibbo/openmm-debpackaging sufficient?
>
> For the moment yes.  I'd welcome if you become a member of the project
> we finally decide to put the package into and than you can commit your
> changes to git.debian.org.  This would be more convenient and
> transparent.
>
> Kind regards
>
>      Andreas.
>
> --
> http://fam-tille.de
>
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