[Distutils] Packaging: bdist_deb patches

[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn]

On Jun 5, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:

> Has there been any progress on getting the 'bdist_deb' target (akin  
> to 'bdist_rpm') implemented in Distutils? We are looking for  
> behavior that would be similar to bdist_rpm driven by setup.cfg  
> with fully automated generation of packages. There is in existence  
> a set of patches that supposedly does this. Has any progress been  
> made to integrate those patches?


I use stdeb for this purpose:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/stdeb

For example, here is a buildbot which automatically builds a new .deb  
from the Python source whenever a new patch is committed to the  
revision control repository:

http://allmydata.org/buildbot-pycryptopp/builders/linux-amd64-ubuntu- 
hardy-yukyuk/builds/82/steps/stdeb/logs/stdio

Regards,

Zooko