[issue1054967] bdist_deb - Debian packager
Andrew Straw added the comment: Barry, stdeb does much of what you're describing. (Try the "python setup.py sdist_dsc" command.) I'm not particularly pleased with the stdeb codebase as it stands, but it does work reasonably well, and I'd like to see progress in this domain, but I'm afraid I don't understand the difference between what it offers and what you're proposing. I guess maybe you're not aware of the "sdist_dsc" distutils command it offers? -Andrew -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1054967> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue1054967] bdist_deb - Debian packager
Andrew Straw added the comment: Barry, I'm sorry I still don't understand what you think is the essential distinction. A debian source package (.dsc, .orig.tar.gz, and .diff.gz files) is simply made from a (patched) source directory, including the debian/ directory, and an upstream tarball. To build this sdist_dsc must of course make the debian/ directory. Thus, it "takes a non-Debianized source tree and turn it into a native [Debian source] package, essentially by pre-filling a debian/ directory like dh_make does, but including additional metadata available in the setup.py". Then, once it done this, it calls "dpkg-buildpackage -S" to turn this filesystem structure into the actual source package. If your final goal is simply the filesystem structure rather than the Debian source package (.dsc, .orig.tar.gz and .diff.gz), then it seems like it would be easier to refactor stdeb to stop before calling dpkg-buildpackage rather than writing a whole new alternate way of generating the debian/ directory based on t he contents of setup.py. So I'm afraid I still don't understand what you want setupdebian to do that stdeb does not. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1054967> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue1054967] bdist_deb - Debian packager
Andrew Straw added the comment: I see. So is copying the debian/ directory into its desired location a possibility for you, either manually or via a new distutils commands that shares 99% of its code with sdist_dsc? It doesn't seem like enough of a difference to start a new project. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1054967> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue1054967] bdist_deb - Debian packager
Andrew Straw added the comment: I have moved the recent discussion on stdeb to a thread on the distutils-sig. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1054967> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue1054967] bdist_deb - Debian packager
Andrew Straw added the comment: stdeb ( http://github.com/astraw/stdeb ) now includes a bdist_deb distutils command. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1054967> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue1054967] bdist_deb - Debian packager
Andrew Straw added the comment: As of stdeb 0.5.0, the setuptools dependency has been removed. Now stdeb requires only plain distutils. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1054967> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
