[Distutils] [pyconuk] "just use debian"

[Matthias Klose]

zooko writes:
> 
> On Sep 24, 2008, at 14:47 PM, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 09:24:00PM -0700, Kevin Teague wrote:
> >> Or they can just use debian!  Any debian developers out there up for
> >> the task of packaging up the 1500+ odd packages released from the  
> >> Zope
> >> community?
> >
> > The SchoolTool guys made a tool and built .debs for all of Zope 3 that
> > SchoolTool needs.  The resulting packages are here:
> > https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-owners/+archive

yes, and we are evaluating how this is maintainable, seen from the
packaging view.

> I used the stdeb tool on several Python packages that I maintain and  
> it worked to produce .deb's from Python source distributions.
> 
> http://stdeb.python-hosting.com

see the todo list why this cannot be yet used for packages that we
want to upload to debian/ubuntu.