vanguardistas.pydebdep 0.1.0

Make egg dependency information available for Debian packaging

Tools for introspecting egg dependency information and providing the resulting data to Debian packaging tools.

This package provides a script pydebdep which introspects an installed .egg-info to extract egg dependency information. The package names are converted to their debian equivilant and the dependency information is printed in the format of a dpkg “Depends:” line.

Usage

To extract the dependency info of this package, one can:

$ python2.4 setup.py build
$ PYTHONPATH=./src python2.4 pydebdep --depends --egg_info src/vanguardistas.pydebdep.egg-info
python-setuptools, python-vanguardistas

This information is then used in a debian/rules file. Included in this package (in the rules directory) are debian/rules files for simple situations. They are generic, and work for a lot of packages. But if they don’t work for yours, make your own.

They can be used in a debian/rules file as follows:

#!/usr/bin/make -f

EGG_NAME=vanguardistas.pydebdep
PACKAGE=python-vanguardistas.pydebdep
DEB_SETUPTOOLS=pydebdep

include /usr/lib/python-vanguardistas.pydebdep/rules/rules.1

Future Development

Er, there shouldn’t be much, unless someone finds something big.

Mostly what should change is the mapping of setuptools names to debian package names as more are added.