[Distutils] Buildout recipe for managing .deb packages?

[zooko]

> I've gotten several suggestions, I like the stdeb approach but it  
> adds another learning curve.

sudo apt-get install build-essential fakeroot debhelper
python ./setup.py sdist_dsc
cd deb_dist
cd $YOUR_PACKAGE_NAME
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc

And if it doesn't work, please let us know!

I'm not saying that it isn't a learning curve.

Regards,

Zooko