On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:46:28 +0200
Piotr Ozarowski
why do you want to use distutils for that? If it's Debian specific, use Debian tools to install these files
Hi Piotr, having an icon for a running program it's hardly a debian-specific thing: more or less any OS have icons for programs, so it seemed a candidate good enough to have been put in the abstraction layer represented by setup.py. That said, I am very new to packaging, and so far the only way I have been able to successfully build a package has been with: python setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_deb so I was just hoping there was a way to keep it this simple! :)
(adding "dir/file.xpm /usr/share/pixmaps/" line to debian/binary-package-name.install file should be enough)
Thanks for this, sooner or later I will try again to have a crack at packaging "from the scratch" but so far I got lost in the many possible way one could do that... [I know - from the presentation you gave somewhere and I found on the intertubes - that I should focus my attention on dh_python2, but so far I haven't been able to find a tutorial easy enough for me to follow. Recommendations on learning material are most than welcome, of course!] /mac