Make egg metadata information available for Debian packaging
Project description
Tools for introspecting Python package metadata and translating the resulting information into Debian metadata. This information is translated:
Setuptools version numbers to Debian format that sorts correctly
Setuptools package names to Debian binary and source package names
Setuptools dependencies to Debian dependencies
This package provides a van-pydeb binary which provides a way to access the information from shell scripts. A python based API is also available for python programs to use.
Usage
To extract the dependency info of this package, one can run the following command after setting up buildout:
$ ./bin/van-pydeb depends --egg-info van.pydeb.egg-info python-setuptools, python-van
This information can then used in a debian/rules file as follows:
(echo -n 'setuptools:Depends=' && van-pydeb depends --egg-info debian/$(PACKAGE)/usr/lib/python$*/site-packages/$(EGG_NAME).egg-info) >> debian/$(PACKAGE).substvars
There ary many different methods of using this command, such as getting the dependencies (including the extra dependencies) of the package:
van-pydeb depends --egg-info debian/$(PACKAGE)/usr/lip/python$*/$(EGG_NAME).egg-info
Or, the dependencies of an extra:
van-pydeb depends --egg-info debian/$(PACKAGE)/usr/lip/python$*/$(EGG_NAME).egg-info --extra $(EXTRA)
The dependencies of 2 extras:
van-pydeb depends --egg-info debian/$(PACKAGE)/usr/lip/python$*/$(EGG_NAME).egg-info --extra $(EXTRA) --extra $(EXTRA2)
The dependencies of a package excluding the dependencies of extras:
van-pydeb depends --egg-info debian/$(PACKAGE)/usr/lip/python$*/$(EGG_NAME).egg-info --exclude-extra $(EXTRA1) --exclude-extra $(EXTRA2)
Development
The code for van.pydeb is housed in subversion at http://svn.zope.org/van.pydeb/.
Changes
1.3.1 (2010-01-14)
Add override for python-gettext.
Add override for Chameleon (python-chameleon).
Update automatically updated list from current unstable.
1.3.0 (2009-09-04)
Add a scripts/generate script which generates a python package -> debian binary mapping suitable for adding to van/pydeb/py_to_bin.txt.
Append the output of the generate script to van/pydeb/py_to_bin.txt.
Expose _default functions for package conversions so that generate can check it’s results and weed out extra packages that match the default conversions.
Make python-pkg-resources the default translation for setuptools: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543551
Add the concept of options to the list of dependencies.
Create a “reduced” option that causes warnings to be printed when a reduced dependncy is used.
Implement a –override-dep option which can be used to override python to binary package dependencies.
1.2.1 (2009-06-15)
Add mapping for ZConfig and RestrictedPython.
Change default Debian binary to python package name conversion. The original package name will be used if there is no python-prefix. This works with packages such as buildbot which do not include the python-. The previous version errored in this case, so we’re backwards compatible :)
1.2.0 (2009-05-29)
Improve README.txt. Thanks to Fabio Tranchitella for a better looking way of calling van-pydeb in the rules file.
Expose version and package name conversion functions via the command line interface. e.g. This command will print out the debian binary package name:
$ van-pydeb py_to_bin foo
1.1.0 (2009-05-26)
Obligatory “How could I have done that” release smoothing out documentation bugs and making the command line options more complete.
1.0.0 (2009-05-26)
Initial Release.
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