Re: [jokosher-devel] Packages

["Stuart Langridge" <sil kryogenix org>]

> The interesting part about distutils is that it can generate binary,
> source,rpms and even windows installers from the same setup script. But not
> debs although unzipping the default binary distribution and adding a
> DEBIAN/controls is all that's needed.

You need debian/changelog and so on as well if it's to be a proper deb.

There's a patch for distutils to support bdist_deb out there
somewhere, although I've never used it.

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