On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 05:07:53PM -0700, Grant Bowman wrote: > Hi all, > > I just subscribed to this list. I am reading about Distutils in > "Distributing Python Modules." In chapter 2.1 I see mention of Windows > (bdist_wininst), RPM (bdist_rpm), Solaris (bdist_pkgtool) and HP-UX > (bdist_sdux). > > http://www.python.org/doc/current/dist/simple-example.html > > How hard would it be to (eventually) add upstream support for something > like bdist_dpkg? > > I'm confident that assisting Python developers in creating basic Debian > source packages would be beneficial.
There was some work done for it: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/python/python/nondist/sandbox/Lib/bdist_dpkg.py I don't think bdist_dpkg will help much though. IMHO bdist_dpkg won't do much better than "checkinstall python setup.py install". Take a look at CDBS(Common Debian Build System) and python-distutils.mk which comes with it. A number of packages already use it. Bye,
