Re: from python egg to debian package : a good example ?

[Jérémy Lal <jerry@edagames.com>]

On 20/08/2009 11:24, Piotr Ożarowski wrote:
> [Ben Finney, 2009-08-20]
> > Piotr Ożarowski<piotr@debian.org>  writes:
> >
> > > [Jérémy Lal, 2009-08-18]
> > > > i'm willing to package a python module (orbited, see
> > > > http://orbited.org). I suppose there's a clever way when the said
> > > > module is a python egg.
> > >
> > > There's tar.gz on PyPi, no need to use Egg.
> >
> > This is true for the ‘orbited’ distribution, but only because the
> > distribution owner has uploaded a tarball.
>
> Can you point me to a project that is providing eggs only?
>
> anyway, here's what I'd do in such case:
> * check if upstream is using VCS (tarball can be created from files in
>    the repo), or
> * ask upstream to point me to the sources, or
> * unzip .egg, add setup.py, create tarball, send setup.py upstream
I was confused and made an omelet with the egg  :)
Indeed the tarball contains setup.py, and dh_pycentral did the job.
Regards,
Jérémy.