text_combined: martin v löwis qpnyslvloewisde speak debian debian yes setuppy would pretty bad packager use reason rewrite upstreams installation procedure would figure files need installed would create many bugs canonical way something like pythonxy setuppy rootpwddebiantmp fixup anything done wrongbadly debian setuppy make tarball pwddebiantmp reality slightly complicated course slightly pycentral pysupport still doubt database would show directory syspath iiuc things get install usrsharepycentralpackage get symlinked usrlibpythonxysitepackages installation time clear deals nonregular files 1 many packages paste parallelpython good examples youre interested look debianrules file started nevow uses cdbs debianrules nearly empty include call setuppy instead distutils support usrsharecdbs1classpythondistutilsmk setuppy invoked ifeq deb_python_real_lib_packages commoninstallarch commoninstallindep commoninstallimpl commoninstallimpl cd deb_srcdir pythondeb_python_compile_version deb_python_setup_cmd install rootdeb_destdir deb_python_install_args_all deb_python_install_args_cdbs_curpkg else patsubst installdeb_python_real_lib_packages install cd deb_srcdir pythoncdbs_python_ver deb_python_setup_cmd install rootcurdirdebiancdbs_curpkg deb_python_install_args_all deb_python_install_args_cdbs_curpkg endif patsubst installdeb_python_simple_packages install cd deb_srcdir python deb_python_setup_cmd install rootcurdirdebiancdbs_curpkg deb_python_install_args_all deb_python_install_args_cdbs_curpkg infer whether supplying package database snippet setuppy would actually work regards martin _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom wed 06 aug 2008 211303 0100 pythondev distutils get rid eggs 26 beyond