Build .deb package using 'equivs-build debian'

[Redmar-van-den-Berg]

First of all, thank you for creating LisSero.

I have created a debian package that makes it easy to install LisSero on debian systems (eg. ubuntu, debian), and I thought you might be interested in that as well. The package has emboss as a dependency, so the user won't have to manually install emboss on their system.

The --ampseq option is not supported, since the package doesn't include isPcr by Jim Kent.

[tseemann]

@Redmar-van-den-Berg thanks for your interest in LisSero. I had made RPMs in the distant past but never a DEB package. Our HPC also uses RHEL (RPMs) here too. For desktops we use Brew. We don't have much expertise with packaging for Debian/Ubuntu.

How does your .spec file get used?
How does this relate to the debian-med project?
https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/

[Redmar-van-den-Berg]

@tseemann

On a fresh ubuntu install, the following should be enough to create and install the debian package.

# Install equivs and git
sudo apt install equivs git

# Get the code
git clone https://github.com/Redmar-van-den-Berg/LisSero.git

# Build the debian package
cd LisSero
equivs-build debian

# install the package on the current system
sudo dpkg -i lissero_0.1_all.deb

# Install the required dependencies (emboss)
sudo apt install -f

I am not familiar with debian-med, but their works looks interesting. I usually create deb packages to have an easy method of installing the software we use on different pc's, and debian-med looks like a good place to share those efforts.