Re: GUI tool for packaging

2012-11-14 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Thomas Kluyver tho...@kluyver.me.uk, 2012-11-09, 13:19: - Do you think this is worth spending time on? I don't think so, sorry. -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: GUI tool for packaging

2012-11-14 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 14 November 2012 11:43, Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org wrote: I don't think so, sorry. Could you expand on this at all? Do you think that packaging should be left to the experts? Or that the existing systems are easy enough for newcomers to learn? Thomas

Re: How to prevent debhelper using Python 2

2012-11-14 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Thomas Kluyver tak...@gmail.com, 2012-11-14, 11:44: While working on the python3-sympy package, I've seen that if Python 2 is installed, various dh_* commands, like dh_auto_clean, will automatically try to run setup.py in Python 2. In this case, setup.py checks the Python version and fails.

Re: Python fdb

2012-11-14 Thread Dmitry Shachnev
Hi Philippe! Please use Debian New Maintainer's Guide¹ as a starting point. For Python-specific things, check the “Python Packaging” page² or a similar article in the Ubuntu Packaging Guide³. If you want a tool that will generate most of the needed files for you, take a look at pydsc (available

Re: Second round of advise on packaging python-csb

2012-11-14 Thread Tomás Di Domenico
On 13/11/12 21:17, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Tomás Di Domenico td...@tdido.com.ar, 2012-11-12, 15:34: * Rebuilt the package with an upstream release tarball Much better now. :) * Changed debian/* license to MIT, matching upstream's DEP-5-compliant short license name for the MIT license is

Merging python-jenkins from Ubuntu

2012-11-14 Thread Paul Belanger
Greetings list, I wanted to start discussion around merging a package from Ubuntu, python-jenkins[1], into Debian. The reason for this is it is actually a dependency for another piece of software I am hoping to package for Debian, jenkins-job-builder[2]. I'd like to go through mentors.debian.net

Re: How to prevent debhelper using Python 2

2012-11-14 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 14, 2012, at 02:14 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Thomas Kluyver tak...@gmail.com, 2012-11-14, 11:44: While working on the python3-sympy package, I've seen that if Python 2 is installed, various dh_* commands, like dh_auto_clean, will automatically try to run setup.py in Python 2. In this case,

Revisiting team joining procedures

2012-11-14 Thread Jakub Wilk
Python Modules Packaging Teams Policy[0] currently reads: The team is open to any python-related package maintainer. To be added on the team, please send your request on debian-python@lists.debian.org indicate why you want to join the team: maintain your current packages within the team, help

Re: Merging python-jenkins from Ubuntu

2012-11-14 Thread Paul Belanger
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Paul Belanger paul.belan...@polybeacon.com wrote: Greetings list, I wanted to start discussion around merging a package from Ubuntu, python-jenkins[1], into Debian. The reason for this is it is actually a dependency for another piece of software I am hoping

Re: Is virtualenv --setuptools still useful?

2012-11-14 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 14, 2012, at 02:00 PM, Stefano Rivera wrote: Hi Barry (2012.11.13_01:04:59_+0200) I am upgrading Ubuntu 13.04's python-virtualenv package to 1.8.2. This could provide a basis for upgrading the Debian version in Wheezy+1. As usual, I'd say: You're a member of DPMT, which is the primary

Re: Second round of advise on packaging python-csb

2012-11-14 Thread Tristan Seligmann
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Tomás Di Domenico td...@tdido.com.ar wrote: Another blurry point. I'm having a hard time understanding the separation of tasks between the tarball packaging done by upstream I described before, and my Debian packaging. Similar to the docs, the tests are run by

Re: Second round of advise on packaging python-csb

2012-11-14 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 15, 2012, at 03:49 AM, Tristan Seligmann wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Tomás Di Domenico td...@tdido.com.ar wrote: Another blurry point. I'm having a hard time understanding the separation of tasks between the tarball packaging done by upstream I described before, and my

Re: GUI tool for packaging

2012-11-14 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Thomas Kluyver's message of 2012-11-09 05:19:03 -0800: This is an idea I've had knocking around for a while. Packaging is complex - there are lots of different tools and syntaxes you have to understand to do a good job of it - quilt, debhelper, watch files, etc. - along with