Re: Packaging patch?

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 12:09:03 +0200, "Iwan Vosloo" <[email protected]> said:
> On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 19:51 -0700, Jonathan Ellis wrote:
> > It's a bug.  Fixed in the 2.1 svn branch; this will be in the 2.1.2
> > release.
> Do you have any need to provide .debs of spyce?  The reason I'm asking
> is that I am using it on Ubuntu, and have added stuff to do the
> packaging as a .deb.  My packages are by no means correct in terms of
> the-debian-way (I don't have time for that) - they just package what
> there is...as a quick hack to make installation convenient for myself.
> 
> And since I'm going to have to re-do this upon an upgrade... I might as
> well contribute those bits so you can include it.  If you're interested?
> 
> How it's done is - I added a setup.py which uses setuptools to make a
> spyce egg.  This egg is then packaged in a .deb.  (Of course, the egg is
> handy for installation on windows machines too, and with the setup.py
> you can easily build rpms too.)

Pauli has also created debian packaging scripts, which I forwarded to
you.  But maintaining the separate build scripts could get painful.  (We
also want to add back a Windows installer.)  If we could run all of
these from setuptools that would be a big win IMO.

> You have to manually run your makefile before building the egg.  And, as
> of NOW I'm still not packaging it according to the new debian python
> policy.

What does that mean?

-J
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