Hi, I've just published a very small library that does three things so far: * Provides a mapping between python project names and Debian binary/source package names * Converts setuptools versions to Debian versions while maintaining sort order * Can introspect an .egg-info directory to figure out the Debian dependencies for use in the debian/control file. It can also handle/understand extras (I Hope!) It's basically an attempt to find a common ground between all the projects doing automated Python->Debian packaging. I have a feeling everyone is re-implementing this code all the time. The code is here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/van.pydeb/ And an example of direct use in a packaging situation with complex dependencies is here: http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-zope/zope.component/trunk/debian/rules?vie... -- Brian Sutherland