I would like to announce the release of stdeb 0.2.a1. = What is it? = stdeb http://stdeb.python-hosting.com/ ("setuptools debian") produces Debian source packages from Python packages via a new distutils command, sdist_dsc, which produces a Debian source package of a Python package. Automatic defaults are provided for the Debian package, but many aspects of the resulting package can be customized via a configuration file. = What's new? = 1) python-central support 2) lots of testing resulting in lots of bug fixes = The gory details = Changelog for Release 0.2.a1 (2007-04-02) 2007-04-02 Make default distribution 'unstable' 2007-03-28 Removed versioned Python interpreter from packages in /usr/bin and /usr/lib. Bump version to 0.2.a1. Include version in autogenerated debian/rules and debian/changelog. 2007-03-15 pycentral support enabled by default 2007-02-04 fix for cases in which setup.py wants __file__ variable 2006-09-07 added --patch-posix to support posix-mode patches 2006-09-07 always extract source using "dpkg-source -x" 2006-09-07 moved working directory for patches one level shallower (may require patch level 1 instead of patch level 0) 2006-08-25 added Forced-Upstream-Version field in .cfg file 2006-08-22 patching source works when --premade-distfile option is given but distfile must be regenerated 2006-08-22 patch level supported via --patch-level option 2006-08-22 Add support for bzip2 tarballs 2006-08-13 Generate source by copying tree, not "python setup.py sdist" 2006-08-13 Patches can be applied prior to first call to setup.py 2006-07-21 Allow patches to upstream source via Stdeb-Patch-File in .cfg file. 2006-07-21 Don't bother trying to rename .egg-info directories. 2006-07-09 Ability to specify MIME-Desktop-Files, MIME-File, and Shared-MIME-File in configuration file. 2006-07-09 Use of dh_python for generation of postinst and prerm scripts. 2006-07-05 Auto-generation of debian/postinst and debian/prerm scripts that create and remove .pyc and .pyo files. 2006-06-21 Upstream .tar.gz files can be used exactly, allowing md5sums to match. 2006-06-21 Expanded source directory is only deleted when commandline option is set.