Status update. I worked on this again, and pushed the results to salsa, which I seem to have forgotten to mention here:
https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/sigal/ I had to change the boto dep to boto3, since the former was removed from Debian. colorbox is now in debian! for now I vendor everything because I haven't figured out how to do the symlink dance. pollo showed me how it's done in supysonic, so that's good inspiration. he cleans the tarball by stripping the vendored files.. But even with the vendored files, build is failing because pybuild is trying to run the tests in its special way, and failing to copy the themes over. I tried to patch this to allow overriding the theme path through the environment, but so far not great. once that's fixed, next step is to unvendor colorbox, and possibly package the other javascript libs. a. -- Be conservative in what you send and liberal in what you accept. - John Postel