On Jul 31, 2008, at 3:46 AM, LumÃr Jasiok wrote:
I need to create .deb package from source package. I am using distutils.
Is there some working bdist_deb extension? What is best practices at this case?
Please try stdeb [1] and let us know how it works for you. It works for me for a few small Python projects (including zfec [2], pycryptopp [3], and pyutil [4]). However, it is still a young tool and you should be willing to report bugs if you try it. By the way, I've contributed a patch for stdeb which is not yet in the current release of stdeb which makes it automatically detect which debian packages your package depends on, using the "install_requires" field from the setup() args: [5]. Thank you for your help in improving Python packaging tools! Regards, Zooko [1] http://stdeb.python-hosting.com [2] http://allmydata.org/trac/zfec/ [3] http://allmydata.org/trac/pycryptopp/ [4] http://allmydata.org/trac/pyutil [5] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2008-June/009632.html