On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 06:07:56PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Howdy all, > > I'm attempting to package a Python package according to the > python-central instructions > <URL:http://python-modules.alioth.debian.org/python-central_howto.txt>. When > building the package, I get the following output: > > ===== > [...] > dh_pycentral > dh_link > dh_strip > dh_compress > dh_fixperms > dh_installdeb > dh_shlibdeps > dh_gencontrol > dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${python:Depends} > dh_md5sums > dh_builddeb > ===== > > This is referring to the debian/control Depends field: > > Depends: ${python:Depends} > > Earlier, I had > > Depends: ${python:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} > > and 'dpkg-gencontrol' complained about every one of those. > > Searching for information about this, I've seen references to > 'packagename.substvars' that should be created during package > building. What is it that should be creating these? A missing 'dh_foo' > command?
you should use dh_pythonsupport (from python-support). (or dh_pycentral from python-central). python-support comes with a very friendly documentation in /usr/share/doc/python-support/README.Debian to help you through python packaging. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O [EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO http://www.madism.org
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