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Re: Proposal for a Python-related GSoC project



[Francesca Ciceri, 2011-03-23]
> [please CC me, as I'm not subscribed]
> 
> Hi all,
> as you probably have known, also this year Debian has been selected as a
> mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code.
> Now is the right time to propose projects and apply as mentors, so we can
> catch the best students ;)
> During a brainstorming about possible project, Lars Wirzenius has proposed a
> Python one, so here I am.
> Let me quote directly his proposal:
> 
> < liw> how about something like dh-make-perl but for python's pypi? 
> i.e., take a package from pypi (the python package inventory) and 
> make a rudimentary debian package out of it, automatically?

such tool already exists, see python-stdeb package (which provides
pypi-install and py2dsc tools). There are many things that could be
improved there, though
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