[Neurodebian-devel] Debian packages for Stimfit

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

Great!  Thanks for sharing great news

What about taking 1 step forward and making it ready for upload to
Debian. 

* lintian would be your friend in such endeavor -- it detects
  few issues on the current *changes
* migrate away from a single .deb into
  * libstimfit0 (or libstf0) + corresponding libstimfit-dev (now headers seems to be
  absent from .deb altogether)
  * python-stimfit
  * stimfit
  * you might also like having corresponding stimfit-dbg package
    which would contain debug symbols...

I havn't looked inside yet (kids around) but those might be a sign of a
missing linking

dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: debian/stimfit/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/stimfit/_stf.so contains an unresolvable reference to symbol _ZN9Recording9SetFitEndEi: it's probably a plugin.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: 48 other similar warnings have been skipped (use -v to see them all).
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol _ZN9Recording9SetFitEndEi used by debian/stimfit/usr/lib/libstf.so.0.0.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol _ZN15wxStfChildFrame11SetChannelsEmm used by debian/stimfit/usr/lib/libstf.so.0.0.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol _ZN9Recording11SelectTraceEm used by debian/stimfit/usr/lib/libstf.so.0.0.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol _ZN8wxStfDoc21OnNewfromselectedThisEv used by debian/stimfit/usr/lib/libstf.so.0.0.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol _ZNK15wxStfCursorsDlg17GetStartFitAtPeakEv used by debian/stimfit/usr/lib/libstf.so.0.0.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol _ZN15wxStfChildFrame9ShowTableERKN3stf5TableERK8wxString used by debian/stimfit/usr/lib/libstf.so.0.0.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol _ZN15wxStfChildFrame11SetSelectedEm used by debian/stimfit/usr/lib/libstf.so.0.0.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol _ZN9Recording10SetPeakEndEi used by debian/stimfit/usr/lib/libstf.so.0.0.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol _ZN7Channel13InsertSectionERK7Sectionm used by debian/stimfit/usr/lib/libstf.so.0.0.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol _ZN8wxStfApp17OnPeakcalcexecMsgEP8wxStfDoc used by debian/stimfit/usr/lib/libstf.so.0.0.0 found in none of the libraries.


On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, Christoph Schmidt-Hieber wrote:

> Dear all,

> I've finally managed to put together some deb packages for Stimfit. They are currently available through a launchpad ppa (https://launchpad.net/~christsc-gmx/+archive/neuropy). On ubuntu, you can add it to your apt list using

> $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:christsc-gmx/neuropy

> Before installing, it's a good idea to remove any remnants of a previous stimfit install (sudo make uninstall).
> Then, you can install stimfit using apt-get:

> $ sudo apt-get update
> $ sudo apt-get install stimfit

> I'm not sure whether the debs will work on "real" Debian and would welcome some testing. Let me know how it goes.

> Best,
> Christoph
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