Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Michael Davidsaver <[email protected]> · Tue, 20 Feb 2018 09:34:24 -0800

On 02/19/2018 01:36 AM, Carlos Pascual wrote:
> On Monday, February 12, 2018 3:52:05 PM CET Anton Derbenev wrote:
...
> I am sure you already considered making the packages official in debian... but 
> just in case you didn't know, debian is making it easier now by  moving their 
> shared packaging repos to a gitlab-based infrastructure [3]

I did look into this somewhat way back in 2010/2011.  Debian has significant
non-technical hurdles to getting included.  And doings so for a dozen or so
packages seemed like a significant effort without a clear upside for NSLS2.
This, coupled with technical pushback on some of my decisions
(eg. /usr/lib/epics/include vs /usr/include) soured me on the idea.

It remains feasible for anyone willing to spend the time needed.
So while I don't see myself leading such an effort (absent funding*),
I'll assist as much as possible if someone else wants to have a go.

* To be clear.  Debian packaging and distribution maintenance is
a huge time savings for devs. and sys admins.  It's also tedious,
monotonous, and hugely boring work for packagers.  So I'm not
motivated to spend my free time on this work.

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System