[Chicago] fishing for talks

[Massimo Di Pierro]

I am very much interested in learning how to make debian packages and  
how to use launchpad better.


On Nov 2, 2009, at 5:36 PM, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:

> I'm also going to +1 this.
>
> I'm greatly, greatly interested in this topic.  Plus, there are plenty
> of challenges in packaging stuff with python nicely.
>
> It's a talk I've been hoping someone would do for a while :)
>
>
> Garrett Smith <g at rre.tt> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Pete <pfein at pobox.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Nov 1, 2009, at 8:07 PM, Tal Liron wrote:
>>>
>>>> * Packaging Python for Debian/Ubuntu
>>>>
>>>> I'd give an introduction to the whole Debian distribution system,  
>>>> which is
>>>> actually pretty neat, and show you how to push your Python app  
>>>> into a
>>>> Personal Package Archive (PPA) on Launchpad, which is not neat at  
>>>> all and in
>>>> fact is an undocumented abyss teeming with poisonous, man-eating  
>>>> crocodiles.
>>>> I'll save you from the crocodiles.
>>>
>>> -1 This sounds more like a talk about Debian/Launchpad than Python,
>>> something that's going to to be of limited interest to a large  
>>> %age of our
>>> audience.
>>>
>>> If it can be made to focus specifically on Python issues (ie, how  
>>> do you go
>>> from a distutils/setuptools install script to a .deb?), I'd be more
>>> amenable.
>>
>> Heh, heh, another opportunity to disagree with Pete :)
>>
>> I'll +1 this -- it's got plenty of Python and Tal will make it  
>> interesting.
>>
>> Garrett
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