Re: Packaging software for Cheeseshop and Debian

On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 10:09 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Unfortunately, it doesn't run, failing with an
ImportError. The
> modules are not installed to '/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/...',
but only to
> '/usr/share/pycentral/gracie/site-packages/gracie/'
which isn't on the
> system path for Python modules.
> 
> A 'find /' for the modules shows that they *only* exist
in that
> location. Isn't 'python-central' supposed to
automatically put them in
> the version-specific locations?

I develop and package webcheck [0] (a python application
with private
modules). I put all stuff in /usr/share/webcheck and use
python-support
for compiling the stuff there. I ship an /usr/bin/webcheck
symlink
to /usr/share/webcheck/webcheck.py. This seems to work
fine.

> > I don't know if setuptools or distutils supports
packaging private
> > modules.
> 
> Then what is meant by the Python policy speaking of
such things?

I have only recently had a look at distutils [1] and have
the impression
that it is only meant for stuff that should end up in the
system python
path (please correct me if I'm wrong).

[0] http://packages.d
ebian.org/webcheck
[1] http://w
ww.python.org/doc/2.4/dist/dist.html

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