[Distutils] Distributing Python-programs to Ubuntu users

[Andrew Straw]

Olof Bjarnason wrote:
> 2009/9/26 Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn <zooko at zooko.com>:
>   
>> On Friday,2009-09-25, at 2:23 , Olof Bjarnason wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I've skimmed a couple of tutorials on how to generate .deb-files, but,
>>> wow, it's a whole new skill set to do that!
>>>       
>> Have you tried stdeb?
>>
>> http://github.com/astraw/stdeb
>>
>> Check out the section entitled "Quickstart 1: Just tell me the fastest way
>> to make a .deb".
>>     
>
> This looks interesting!
>
> This seems to be the path to follow:
>
> 1. Learn setup.py+distutils
> 2. Fix my project to follow that convention
> 3. Upload project to pypi
>   
Strictly speaking, that step 3 is not necessary.
> 4. Use stdeb to generate .deb


-Andrew