I will describe here some notes I keep while packaging python modules.
debian/control
- Depends: no need for python-all-dev, if you're not building an extension, otherwise python is enough
- does pycentral require Provides: ${python:Provides} ? if not, please remove it (you can remove it)
debian/rules
if you do things like " PYVERS=$(shell pyversions -r) ; for python in $(PYVERS);... " you need python-all as build-dep isntead of python alone but doing that for all python versions only makes sense if you want to run tests (which doesn;t work due to the broken py.test) or if you build extensions which are writen in C so I'd suggest to stay with python and juse use python setup.py .... so pycentral wil handle that based on the XB-Python-versions thing or so
debian/watch
Previously, to check cheeseshop packages for new version, you've had to write something like this:
# Compulsory line, this is a version 3 file version=3 opts="filenamemangle=s/.*\/([^#]*)#.*/$1/" \ http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/python-gnutls http://pypi\.python\.org/packages/source/p/python-gnutls/python-gnutls-(.*)\.tar\.gz#md5=.*
now, with the new version of pypi, it's simply as:
http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/python-gnutls/python-gnutls-(.*)\.tar\.gz
Some general suggestions
deal with unicode chars in setup.py: http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2007/05/msg00006.html