Tutorial about dh-virtualenv HOT 5 CLOSED

You might want to check out the sentry part of our blogpost: http://labs.spotify.com/2013/10/10/packaging-in-your-packaging-dh-virtualenv/

In addition, I'll format that to a tutorial in the documentation, with more from-scratch approach :)

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A tutorial that assumes no knowledge of debian packaging would be nice… I have a Python project with a setup.py and a requirements.txt, installed dh-virtualenv via a deb package built with fpm. However I have no idea of how to actually build the debian package for my project.

• Where do I put the debian/* files? Does debian/ live in the same directory as the root of my package?
• What do I put in debian/*?
• What command should I run to build my package?

Coming from fpm this is a bit confusing :)

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Yeah, the plan is to provide some tiny overview of Debian packaging, i.e. cover what the different required files do there, what the text in them means etc. And in addition, provide a template to build upon.

It's somewhat different from fpm, as fpm actually does not use debian tools to build the packages but instead builds the package manually by entering correct files in the tar. The actual Debian build system is way more powerful than fpm, but comes with the cost of complexity.

I'll try to address these issues in the tutorial :)

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If you feel the tutorial is lacking something or does not explain things in detail, feel free to reopen the ticket or add a new one! :)

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@nailor That's great, thanks a lot! I just successfully built a package. Only things I had to do:

• Install devscripts and equivs but ubuntu hinted me about this
• Remove the Makefile I had at the root of my project, which caused conflicts with debian's machinery.

Overall it seems to have generated a proper package, I'll try this in production soon!

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