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Resources for Debian BOINC Maintainers

The purpose of this page is to provide resources to aid members of the Debian BOINC maintenance team in packaging BOINC and related software.

Using pkg-boinc's VCS repositories

Some of our packages are maintained in Git repositories others are maintained in a Subversion repository. See BOINC/Development/GitUsage and BOINC/Development/SVN for details.

To-do list

  • Remaining issues for an upload to DebianUnstable:

  • Issues to be addressed prior to releasing the next upstream release:
    • 6.3/6.4:

      • Do not install "BOINC Manager.mo" files by-hand, see r15299 and #743.

      • Migrate from /usr/include/BOINC to /usr/include/boinc and remove the sea specific patch, see r15300.

      • Upstream changes that possibly affect packaging: 15305, 15306, 15594, 16208

      • BOINC is now licensed under LGPL-3+

  • General major TODOs:
  • General minor TODOs:
    • Write expressive long descriptions for boinc-server.

  • Detailed TODO:
    • The TODO.Debian file have more detailed info about debian/copyright at this momment

  • Thoughts for the Wiki:

Bookmarks for BOINC in Debian

Upstream resources for packagers

Packages for other operating systems

Source repositories of BOINC applications

  • Einstein@Home

  • SETI@home

  • MilkyWay@home

  • SZTAKI has prepared an infrastructure to run arbitrary jobs on BOINC in sync with regular Computational Grids. For that, they have also prepared Debian packages for the BOINC servers.

See also