[ pkg-boinc-Feature Requests-303423 ] Client software (like setiathome...)

[Frank S. Thomas]

On Friday 05 May 2006 22:31, noreply at alioth.debian.org wrote:
> As you know boinc is useless without any client project.
>
> So my wish is that you (may I help ?) package some project client like
> setiathome.
>
> In fact, in a regular linux/x86 box boinc automatic downloads the right
> setiathome client, but on linux/sparc, linux/ppc.. no binary exists.
>
> FreeBSD has already packaged setiathome client, maybe we can check how they
> did to create the debian stuff.
>
> Let me know if you feel interrested in it.

Hi!

Thanks for your interest in helping out with packaging setiathome. Help is of 
course always appreciated. We have an old but working prototype of a 
setiathome package in our SVN repository:
  http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-boinc/trunk/boinc-app-seti

This package needs _a lot_ of polishing before it can be uploaded into the 
Debian archive, eg. it should be updated to the latest upstream version, it 
currently lacks a description, it should be checked against lintian and linda 
and much more things I can't remember now. It should also be decided if we 
are using the classical or the enhanced version as source for the package.

So if you are really interested send patches for boinc-app-seti, or tell me 
your Alioth login so that I can add you to the pkg-boinc project and can give 
you access to the SVN repository. If you have further questions don't 
hesitate to post them to pkg-boinc-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org.

Grüße,
Frank
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