I am moving the venue for this discussion on stdeb to the distutils-sig
(from http://bugs.python.org/issue1054967 ). I think this is better
discussed there.
On 4/29/10 10:16 PM, Éric Araujo wrote:
Éric Araujo<[email protected]> added the comment:
Andrew, I am uncomfortable with stdeb. (Trying to express respectful
constructive critique, not just picking on your project.) The version in
Debian testing, 0.5.1-1, still requires setuptools (actually only
pkg_resources, which is split into another package in Debian, for space
or politic reasons).
I see, thanks for pointing this out. I thought pkg_resources was in the
stdlib (or on that track). I will investigate.
The py2dsc script seems to be obsoleted by the
to-be “debian” command.
Can you refer me to the source code and/or documentation for that
command? I was not previously aware of it.
The pypi-install script seems dangerous to me,
because downloading unverified software and putting it into the system
seems a rather bad idead (a.k.a. “sudo ./setup.py install considered
harmful”).
Yes, some might consider it dangerous, although it does of course
require root privileges before installing anything system-wide (and only
builds the .deb file with user privileges). Nevertheless, it is a useful
tool and safer than "sudo python ./setup.py install" because one can
always do "sudo dpkg --purge python-some-package" to remove that package
again.
python-debian provides useful support code for generating and reading
debian formats. A quick read show the code would benefit from some 2.6
modernizing (i.e. gain in simplicity and readability by using modern
idioms and stdlib functions).
Yes, I'm not particularly proud of the code in stdeb -- please feel free
to hack away. Any and all improvements accepted, preferably in
bite-sized commits to a fork on github.
Would using this package in stdeb /
distutils2.command.debian instead of shelling out bring anything?
(Ah, I gather this is the debian command you refer to above?) Not
knowing that command, I'm not sure what would be gained. If the command
depends on debhelper (by shelling out to dh_make), it would remove that
dependency. It also brings all the options described in the README.rst file.
-Andrew
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