[gmx-developers] I want to import gromacs into Debian

[Michael Banck]

Hi,

On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 08:58:46AM +0800, nichloas at sohu.com wrote:
>   I don't think a development pakcage of libgmx or libmd is necessary. 

Well, it's mandated by Debian policy, the development package consists
of the statically linked library and the header files, so you can
possibly build other software which need gromacs. Even if nothing else
needs/needed gromacs, debian policy still says that a -dev package must
be present.

>   And I only want to build a deb package and integrated into the main
> debian archive. 

If you want to have a package integrated into the main debian archive,
you need to follow policy already.

> So i can install gromacs on my computer directly by "apt-get install
> gromacs".

You can achieve that by putting it up on some website as an apt-gettable
archive, no need to have it at ftp.debian.org proper.


Michael

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