[Tutor] Standard way to create debian packages for python programs?

[Mac Ryan]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:01:08 -0400
Brett Ritter <swiftone at swiftone.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Mac Ryan <quasipedia at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >        In particular, `distutils` is part of the standard python
> > distribution and it is in no way specific to Debian, so I don't feel
> > this is the wrong place to ask, although it's totally ok if tutors
> > feel they aren't competent enough on the subject to give proper
> > feedback. :)
> 
> Are you looking for distutils advice, or .deb advice?  They are pretty
> different.
> How are you expecting your users to install your package?  Via
> easy_install?  Apt-get?  Something else?

Hi Brett,

	thanks for coming back to me. My goal is to have a .deb package
installable with apt-get. What I am asking advice on is primarily the
distutils script.

	The procedure on how to get to a .deb package is there just to
give a context to my question and - hopefully - to have somebody tell
me if I am 100% wrong and indeed a setup.py script is NOT part
of the process.

	I'm going to reply to Ramit in a second and hopefully I will be
able to further clarify there what I am asking.

	Thank you,
	/mac