[Distutils] bdist_deb in stdeb

[Andrew Straw]

Gerry Reno wrote:
> Andrew Straw wrote:
>> Gerry Reno wrote:
>>  
>>> Then I'm ok then with having 'bdist_deb' be the name and using the
>>> plugin approach.
>>>
>>> Andrew, what do you think about this solution?
>>>     
>> It's already committed as of a couple days ago in the "old-stable"
>> branch and I just merged it into the master branch.
>>
>> I'll release 0.3.1 (from the old-stable branch) and 0.4 (from the master
>> branch) with this soon.
>>
>> -Andrew
>>   
> In reviewing the gerry-reno git branch and the old-stable branch I
> don't see where there are any user-options declared in
> stdeb/command/bdist_deb.py.  Shouldn't the same user-options be there
> as are in sdist_dsc.py?  The 'bdist_deb' command usefulness would be
> very limited without the ability to pass options to it and hence to
> 'sdist_dsc'.
What options do you want to pass to it? bdist_deb does very little other
than call dpkg-buildpackage on the result of sdist_dsc.

As far as how -- that's standard distutils. You should be able to follow
the lead from the sdist_dsc command, for example.

(I'm still waiting for github come come 100% back online.)

-Andrew