Thanks Daniel,

Looks like "export DH_OPTIONS=--buildsystem=python_distutils" (as
opposed to using dh_python2) is the magic flag.

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Daniel Farina <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Bo Shi <[email protected]> wrote:
>> My old debian/rules file for wal-e 0.6.x for use in launchpad was
>> quite minimalist (below) and seemed to work well enough.  The new beta
>> includes a Makefile that seems to be primarily targeted at very
>> specific environments (pypi, travis).  Does anyone know of a flag or
>> method to instruct dh to ignore the upstream Makefile?
>
> I have a functional set of packaging I use constantly.
>
> https://launchpad.net/~drfarina/+archive/wal-e/+packages
>
> I sometimes copy it out to a public PPA for a yet-un-mentioned
> inspection (because it's just a set of snapshots and for Heroku
> operations, with no particular concern to being useful to anyone
> else), but as it turns out I haven't changed the structure of that
> package (e.g. rules) in a while...years, probably, and it seems work
> perfectly, including with the project Makefile.
>
> I created it with 'stdeb'.  Consider it recommended.  But I havne't
> had to use stdeb more than once...
>
> The thing that makes my WAL-E package weak compared to a real debian
> package are my lousy changelog hygiene (I don't care, there are no
> arm's lengths consumers), and probably other un-itemized weaknesses
> because I am no expert at that.
>
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