Hi,
I am developing a plugin for IBus, written in python3. The project depends on some other python modules and system packages, like python3-gi, gir1.2-ibus-1.0 etc. Also, it needs to install data files to the system ( inside /usr/lib/ibus/component/) to make itself available to IBus. I am a debian user and the project being debian packaging friendly is an important goal.
As far as my project requirements go, I can't use any of the distutils/setuptools/distribute since they can't handle dependency checks not satiable through PyPI ( ridiculous isn't it? ). I can't also dive into the absurdity of making a `wheel` and installing it with `pip` since wheels don't allow file deployment in absolute system path.
I found some online resource where someone suggested using autotools for building GTK+python applications. I can definitely go that route, but how would it affect packaging for debian? How am I supposed to specify the python module dependencies?
I've done some research on 'dh' with 'pybuild', but it seems to be concerned with packaging python projects using in distutils family tools.
Right now, my project has a custom installer script that asks the users to install necessary packages and copies the files to the appropriate location. I would gladly appreciate if anyone can guide to a saner alternative.
- Titon
[ Sorry for overwhelming you guys with questions. I love python, but I absolutely despise being a back-end server side application developer who writes in python; every bit of productivity gained by the language is usually lost in pulling out hairs in times of deployment and system integration. ]