Re: Packaging patch?

Hi Jonathan.

I just had a look ad Pauli's deb stuff.  It is far superior to what I
have.  I just hacked something together to work in my environment.
Pauli has done quite a bit more to polish it.  I also have packaged the
code only; Pauli included more useful stuff.  So I don't think you want
mine.

Of course, one would eventually want something that derives packaging
anything from setuptools.  And, as stated earlier, you can have this for
a source tarball (sdist), rpm (bdist_rpm) and egg (bdist_egg) already.
But, there is no bdist_deb AFAIK.  So, what I do is to package the egg
in a deb, slightly duplicating stuff anyways.

There are meta information and scripts in a deb which cannot be
generated from the information present in a setup.py, though.  Which is
probably why there's no bdist_deb yet.  (The maintainer scripts, for
example.)  And, eggs are for python code.  In Debian, you also package
other stuff such as docs which are installed elsewhere.

My debs thus package eggs, and the code only - since that was all I
needed.

-i


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