[Distutils] Packaging: bdist_deb patches / platform specific code

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 8 Jun, 2009, at 20:15, David Lyon wrote:

>
>> the same for rpm, deb and mpkg.
>
> Granted. They're are a bit more tricky. But essentially they
> are all just zip files with some entry and exit scripts.

To pick some nits: the mpkg one cannot be created on any other system  
than an OSX one because one of the files that's included in an OSX  
package has an undocumented format and is created using a tool that's  
only available on OSX.

Ronald