[Quantian-general] How difficult is it to package something for Debian/Quantian?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 15 December 2005 at 12:52, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
| I have a couple of packages I'd like to see included in Quantian, but I 
| don't think they're in the standard Debian repositories. How difficult 

That's the spirit!

| is it to build a package (Debian source and binary) given something 
| that's got proper licensing?

Can't be too hard as there are 15,000 existing ones :)   Seriously, that is a
question for the debian-mentors list, and you probably get more help from
Google. Eg  I just tried the not so well formed query 'how to debianize a
program' which got 22,800 hits. 'how to create debian package' get 2,330,300
including two book references and several HOWTOs.  

Libraries are harder. Start with something small. And do consider the
debian-users and debian-mentors lists as there are way more people
listening. Debian-science isn't bad for science topics, but is unrelated to
packaging.

Hope this helps, Dirk

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