[Gnumed-devel] Re: GNUmed install made easy - maybe

[Andreas Tille]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, J Busser wrote:

> At 10:46 PM +0200 9/20/05, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > The gnumed-client-0.1 Debian packages hit the Debian news queue
> > yesterday.  The typical time for new packages to enter Debian
> > is about one week.  I'll keep you inform once you can apt-get
> > the packages.
>
> Last night, I refreshed my apt-cache but searching for gnumed yielded 
> nothing.

~> apt-cache search gnumed
gnumed-bmi - [Med] Body Mass Index tool
gnumed-client - [Med] Medical practice management - Client
gnumed-common - [Med] Medical practice management - common files
gnumed-doc - [Med] Medical practice management - Documentation
gnumed-drugdisplay - [Med] Drug display for GNUmed
gnumed-meddocs - [Med] document display handler for GNUmed
gnumed-plugincommon - [Med] GNUmed - common files for client plugins
gnumed-pregcalc - [Med] Calculate expected date of delivery
gnumed-snellen - [Med] Tool to emulate a Snellen chart onscreen
gnumed-xdtviewer - [Med] GNUmed xDT viewer

> Also, would gnumed debs go into Debian "testing" and may that be a reason (if 
> I am configured to use Sarge 'stable') that it would not be indexed in my 
> apt-cache?

Well, gnumed packages do not behave other than any other Debian package:

    1. upload to unstable
    2. stay for 10 days there
    3. if the package did not gathered a RC bug it is automatically
       moved to testing
    4. if it has no RC bug it will be included in the next stable
       release (whenever this will be)
    5. there is no chance to hit stable before - and I think in the
       case of gnumed this is no problem

It's perfectly doable to install these packages on a stable system.
Please read

      man apt_preferences

to find out how to mix packages from testing or unstable onto your
stable system (or ask me for an example /etc/apt/preferences file).

Kind regards

          Andreas.

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