from python egg to debian package : a good example ?

Jérémy Lal · External Since: Jul 29, 2009 Posts: 4

Hi,
i'm willing to package a python module (orbited,
see http://orbited.org).
I suppose there's a clever way when the said
module is a python egg.
However i don't find any coherent documentation on this,
and how python-distutils, dh_pycentral, dh_pysupport
provides coherent python module packaging.
I'd appreciate any documentation, or better the name
of a source package that shows clearly how to do.
I tried reading python-fuse/debian/rules... not learned much from it Smile

Regards,
JÃ©rÃ©my Lal

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Piotr OÅ¼arowski · External Since: Apr 15, 2009 Posts: 12

[Ben Finney, 2009-08-20]
> Piotr OÅ¼arowski <piotr.RemoveThis@debian.org> writes:
>
> > [Jérémy Lal, 2009-08-18]
> > > i'm willing to package a python module (orbited, see
> > > http://orbited.org). I suppose there's a clever way when the said
> > > module is a python egg.
> >
> > There's tar.gz on PyPi, no need to use Egg.
>
> This is true for the 'orbited' distribution, but only because the
> distribution owner has uploaded a tarball.

Can you point me to a project that is providing eggs only?

anyway, here's what I'd do in such case:
* check if upstream is using VCS (tarball can be created from files in
the repo), or
* ask upstream to point me to the sources, or
* unzip .egg, add setup.py, create tarball, send setup.py upstream

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Jérémy Lal · External Since: Jul 29, 2009 Posts: 4

On 20/08/2009 11:24, Piotr OÅ¼arowski wrote:
> [Ben Finney, 2009-08-20]
>> Piotr OÅ¼arowski<piotr.DeleteThis@debian.org> writes:
>>
>>> [JÃ©rÃ©my Lal, 2009-08-18]
>>>> i'm willing to package a python module (orbited, see
>>>> http://orbited.org). I suppose there's a clever way when the said
>>>> module is a python egg.
>>>
>>> There's tar.gz on PyPi, no need to use Egg.
>>
>> This is true for the â€˜orbitedâ€™ distribution, but only because the
>> distribution owner has uploaded a tarball.
>
> Can you point me to a project that is providing eggs only?
>
> anyway, here's what I'd do in such case:
> * check if upstream is using VCS (tarball can be created from files in
> the repo), or
> * ask upstream to point me to the sources, or
> * unzip .egg, add setup.py, create tarball, send setup.py upstream
>
I was confused and made an omelet with the egg Smile

Indeed the tarball contains setup.py, and dh_pycentral did the job.
Regards,
JÃ©rÃ©my.

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Ben Finney · External Since: May 12, 2005 Posts: 51

Piotr OÅ¼arowski <piotr DeleteThis @debian.org> writes:

> Can you point me to a project that is providing eggs only?

For a while my own did, until I realised that tarballs were a better
option. I've also seen distribution entries that have no files at all,
just meta-data.

My point is that it needs to be realised that *if* a distribution isn't
providing tarballs, that's not because PyPI has failed; it makes no
guarantee that *any* distribution files are downloadable. Therefore one
should not rely on them being available.

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Ben Finney · External Since: May 12, 2005 Posts: 51

Jérémy Lal <jerry.TakeThisOut@edagames.com> writes:

> Indeed the tarball contains setup.py, and dh_pycentral did the job.

Note again, though, that new packaging work shouldn't rely on
'python-central'; it has many problems that are tedious to recover from.
Instead, use 'python-support'.

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Jérémy Lal · External Since: Jul 29, 2009 Posts: 4

On 20/08/2009 12:57, Ben Finney wrote:
> JÃ©rÃ©my Lal<jerry DeleteThis @edagames.com> writes:
>
>> Indeed the tarball contains setup.py, and dh_pycentral did the job.
>
> Note again, though, that new packaging work shouldn't rely on
> â€˜python-centralâ€™; it has many problems that are tedious to recover from.
> Instead, use â€˜python-supportâ€™.
>

Thanks, i just discovered my questions were already answered at
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPythonFAQ

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