RE: Python script
On 04-Apr-2001 Michael Wiedmann wrote:
> Questions which arise for me in creating an unofficial Debian
> package for a Python based script:
>
> - the upstream Python script is called 'script.py'. Should I keep
> the .py extension or drop it?
>
Either is fine.
> - should this script be installed in /usr/bin like any other
> regular program?
>
as a package, yes.
> - the upstream tarball has no man-page, so I'd created one
> and am not sure how to name it: 'script.py.1', 'script.1'?
>
if it is foo.py, you get foo.py.1, if it is foo you get foo.1. BTW there is a
program which takes --help output and makes a manpage. I think it is called
help2man.
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