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buckket / twtxt

Decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers.
http://twtxt.readthedocs.org/en/stable/
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Create a package for Debian #99

Open buckket opened 8 years ago

buckket commented 8 years ago

to make it non-Python users easier to install twtxt.

timofurrer commented 8 years ago

What about the dependencies? Do you want it installable as a standalone package with a virtualenv? Or python-pip as a dependency and install the others in the postinst?

buckket commented 8 years ago

Let’s have a look at twtxt’s dependencies:

Seems like we have everything we need to mitigate all those workarounds, we can just use Debian’s package management to install our deps. :smiley:

So what options do we have? As far as I know there a two tools out there which can help to minimize the effort of creating such a package:

Are there other ways?

timofurrer commented 8 years ago

Oh, I didn't check the requirements yet - but that's great (at least for now). I have had pretty good experiences with stdeb. For the standalone version I would have thought about https://github.com/nylas/make-deb I have never used it tough.. But for our case I wouldn't be needed..

DracoBlue commented 8 years ago

You might also use https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm, which could create rpm's etc, too.