[issue1054967] bdist_deb - Debian packager

2010-05-03 Thread Andrew Straw
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/issue1054

[issue1054967] bdist_deb - Debian packager

2010-04-29 Thread Andrew Straw
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 pr

[issue1054967] bdist_deb - Debian packager

2010-04-29 Thread Andrew Straw
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 upstre

[issue1054967] bdist_deb - Debian packager

2010-04-28 Thread Andrew Straw
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

[issue1054967] bdist_deb - Debian packager

2009-12-30 Thread Andrew Straw
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/issue1054

[issue1054967] bdist_deb - Debian packager

2009-10-04 Thread Andrew Straw
Andrew Straw added the comment: stdeb ( http://github.com/astraw/stdeb ) now includes a bdist_deb distutils command. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1054