Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org> wrote:
> [Thomas Goirand, 2013-09-20]
>> Though my debpypi isn't good enough to be
>> released, I heard Piotr wrote the same kind of tool.
>>
>> Shouldn't we go the same way, and encourage our users to use a kind of
>> wrapper around pip, so that they really get a Debian package installed
>> instead of a "pip install" thing which will mess everything? Piotr,
>> where is the tool you told me about? Could you share it?
>
> I didn't write it, I packaged it for Debian. I have write access to
> upstream repo and plan to update it to support Python 3.X, though
>
> package name: python-stdeb
> provides: /usr/bin/py2dsc, /usr/bin/pypi-install
Wow! I didn't know about pypi-install. That it wasn't mentioned before
in this thread may indicate many people don't know about it either.
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