Re: [Distutils] Low Level API for translating distutils/setuptools metatdata to Debian metadata

2009-08-16 Thread Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
On Wednesday,2009-07-22, at 9:52 , Brian Sutherland wrote: van.pydeb is designed to be run at package build time, rather than at the time you create the source package. I assume that's when stdeb's code runs? Using apt-file during package build time on one of the Debian project's

Re: [Distutils] Low Level API for translating distutils/setuptools metatdata to Debian metadata

2009-07-24 Thread Brian Sutherland
Hi Zooko, I just implemented what I was talking about below on the van.pydeb trunk. Running the script against unstable I get a list of 565 packages that don't match the default mapping, I've added them to van.pydeb's database. The checkin is here:

Re: [Distutils] Low Level API for translating distutils/setuptools metatdata to Debian metadata

2009-07-12 Thread Chris Dew
On May 31, 12:27 am, David Lyon david.l...@preisshare.net wrote:  1) create a three page wizard style app in wxpython After spending a three hours trying to figure out how to correctly build a debian package from Python sources, I agree it needs to be a lot easier. But scripts allow for

Re: [Distutils] Low Level API for translating distutils/setuptools metatdata to Debian metadata

2009-07-12 Thread David Lyon
Hi Chris, I started prototyping of this a month or so ago but haven't had a chance to do much more on it too now. Maybe in the next I'll put more effort into this multi-platform package builder and register it as a project somewhere. If you want to send me your scripts offline, I'd be

Re: [Distutils] Low Level API for translating distutils/setuptools metatdata to?Debian metadata

2009-06-04 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 07:27:06PM -0400, David Lyon wrote: On Fri, 29 May 2009 08:35:16 -0700, Andrew Straw straw...@astraw.com wrote: Brian Sutherland wrote: I've just published a very small library that does three things so far: * Provides a mapping between python project names

Re: [Distutils] Low Level API for translating distutils/setuptools metatdata to Debian metadata

2009-05-29 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 08:35:16AM -0700, Andrew Straw wrote: Brian Sutherland wrote: Hi, I've just published a very small library that does three things so far: * Provides a mapping between python project names and Debian binary/source package names * Converts