Python-stdeb

This is what i've done, to make a shiny python library of mine becomes a fully respectable deb package.

~$ sudo apt-get install python-stdeb

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Move in your python directory, where everything has been started and create your setup.py file, more or less like this sample:

	from setuptools import setup
	setup(
	name='my_py_lib',
	version='1.2.0',
	description='PyLib is what you need',
	packages=['mypylib']
	)

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So, in your directory you list:

	* setup.py
	* mypylib/__init__.py

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Create the stdeb configuration file stdeb.cfg

	[mypylib]
	Package: mypylib
	Maintainer: ZMo <simoneroselli78 gmail.com>

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This file will write parameters in the soon generated DEBIAN/control file. A complete list of the parameters translation is here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/stdeb#stdeb-cfg-configuration-file
Given that, build your package with:

~$ python setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_deb

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NOTE: It will compile the package with mypylib-"version"; the version is the one written in setup.py (version="")

enjoy your deb_dist directory.