[maemo-developers] Writing about Py2deb

[From: Stefan Sayer]

Hello,

o Benoît HERVIER [05/19/09 14:37]:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm not sure that the garage version is up to date.
> I'm open to patch, code, and anything else :)
that's very good, because I have a question: When I package a python 
software that comes with setuptools, currently I do
python setup.py bdist_dumb
and then extract the resulting .tar.gz into the src/ directory which i 
set as dir_name = "src" in my build_xyz.py.

Is this the way to do it? If yes, would it make sense to add this as 
possibility to py2deb.py directly, so one does not have to do it by hand?

btw, python setup.py bdist_maemo usually does not work because it 
requires all files to be passed to setuptools.setup(), which usually is 
not done. But it also seems to me that py2deb is newer/more complete 
than bdist_maemo from setuptools.

Thanks
Stefan