Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: tree and turns it into a source package that can be uploaded. What I'm looking for is something that can take a non-Debianized source tree and turn it into a native package, essentially by pre-filling a debian/ directory like dh_make does, but including additional metadata available in the setup.py. > > I've started taking a crack at this:
Barry, what do you mean with “native package”? In Debian parlance, a native package is a piece of software that isn’t released outside of Debian and thus has no hyphen in the version number (a hyphen is normally used to separate the upstream version number from a debian-packaging-specific number, e.g. “0.2-1”). I don’t know stdeb (I avoid Setuptools), so I don’t understand the difference you make. On a related note, I’ve seen in your setupdebian code that you unconditionally remove some files under the debian directory, but some of them may be useful, especially for building multiple binary packages (i.e. separate installable .deb packages) out of one source package, e.g. to split architecture-independent modules from arch-dependent C extensions (like mercurial and mercurial-common). More info: - how to build multiple binary packages: http://wiki.debian.org/PkgSplit http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2009/09/msg00091.html - questioning usefulness of PEP 345 for automation of deb packaging: http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2009/11/msg00076.html - extensions to Distutils that may meet some debian packaging needs: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~python-distutils-extra-hackers/python-distutils-extra/debian/files - rough proposal by myself for support in Distutils2: http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/Proposals/SplitAndCompoundDistributions HTH ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1054967> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
