This talk was not officially announced. The reason is that in the
talks about Libre Software for Medicine I have seen that there are some
problems for developers and users which could be easily solved using
a packaging system. That's why I offered to do the talk for
the next day at request of the participants.
Any questions and hints are welcome.
Packaging Software for Use in Medicine
- Why precompiled packages?
- What can Debian do for you?
- What can you do for Debian?
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Why precompiled packages?
- users don't need any skills to install
- easily installation for administrators even if there are many boxes to install
- easily upgrading and following security updates
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Why precompiled DEBIAN packages?
- Debian is famous
- for its difficulty of installation :-)
- Differentiation of installation of
- Operating System (once a year)
- Single applications (could be often)
- Debian is completely developed by volunteers so no marketing is
necessary
- It is independent from any ranking in newspaper tests which
just tests ease of installing the basic system
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So what is Debian at all?
- Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An
operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that
make your computer run.
- Debian GNU/Linux provides more than a pure OS: it comes with
more than 3950 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice
format for easy installation on your machine.
- It's a bit like a tower. At the base is the kernel. On top of
that are all the basic tools. Next is all the software that you run
on the computer. At the top of the tower is Debian -- carefully
organizing and fitting everything so it all works together.
- Although Debian believes in Free Software, there are cases where
people want or need to put commercial software on their
machine. Whenever possible Debian will support this. There are even
a growing number of packages whose sole job is to install commercial
software into a Debian system.
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What can Debian do for you?
- completely free operating system
- well tested, rock stable operating system
- clear policy
- option to do things yourself
- increase
- usability
- security
- spreading over the world
- availability to different architectures
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Debian is a do-it-yourself system
- if you want software get included you can
- do it yourself if you are skilled (in general upstream
maintainers are very skilled)
- ask for it to get included
- normally software which is needed will be packaged
- kind of evolution principle
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Why not just ship a Debian package ...
... but include the software right into debian
- dependencies
- mirrors
- architectures
- wide user base
- bug system
- security team
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What about "Dependencies"?
# >apt-get install DrugDesign
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
DrugDesign
The following NEW packages will be installed:
Garlic Ghemical ChemIR Nmrview DrugDesign
0 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 9109kB of archives. After unpacking 19.9MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
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→ Anybody here want's to tell me that isn't easy?
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Internals:
control file of package DrugDesign
Source: DrugDesign
Section: scientific
Priority: extra
Maintainer: Jerome Pansanel <pansanel@chimie.u-strasbg.fr>
Package: DrugDesign
Depends: Garlic, Ghemical, VirtualPakageForAnalysisStructure
Suggests: ChemIR, Nmrview
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Internals:
control file of package ChemIR
Source: ChemIR
Section: scientific
Priority: extra
Maintainer: Anybody Else <anybody@else.org>
Package: ChemIR
Depends: X11, ...
Provides: VirtualPakageForAnalysisStructure
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→ Quite orthogonal, isn't it?
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Another example: FreeMed
control file of package FreeMad
Source: FreeMed
Section: scientific
Priority: extra
Maintainer: FreeMed Developer <developer@freemed.org>>
Package: FreeMed
Depends: php3 | php4, apache, mysql
Conflicts: FreePm
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Quality Assurance and Auditing:
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What can you do for Debian?
maintained packages (developer or sponsored)
- file bug reports (with patches)
- write documentation
- translate documentation
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Get more information
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