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severin-lemaignan commented 1 year ago

hi! In order to easily depend on reasonable, I'd like to package it on debian.

Packaging reasonable as a deb has however proven to be tricky:

reasonable is written in rust, uses maturin to compile the Python bindings
the Python package follows the new 'PEP-517'/'PEP-518' convention (instead of distutils) and rely on a pyproject.toml (that specify maturin as build tool). poetry is used to perform the compilation + pypi distribution.
debian python helpers (in particular, py2dsc (part of stdeb) and pybuild, part of dh-python) do not yet support PEP-517 (on-going work, but not available in ubuntu 20.04, and, based on the code of the plugin, probably not compatible with maturin)
attempted to create by hand (eg with debmake) the debian control + rules, using this rules file:

#!/usr/bin/make -f
export DH_VERBOSE = 1

%:
    dh $@ --with python3

override_dh_auto_build:
    dh_auto_build -- build-python-library

-> compiles, but the resulting .deb is empty -> need to 'install' the compiled libreasonable.so.

Do you have any suggestions/ideas to help with it?

severin-lemaignan commented 1 year ago

A quick work-around might be to use wheel2deb, I suppose.

gtfierro commented 1 year ago

Is there a reason you'd prefer the debian packaging rather than just PyPi?

As a note to myself, because I'm using GH Actions to do the packaging I don't actually have the .whl files locally. Luckily they are hosted on PyPi

severin-lemaignan commented 1 year ago

We would like to deploy reasonable on our robots, and we have a strict policy of only distributing deb packages on the robots (as this enables a pretty complex game of dependencies + continuous integration). pypi is fine for development, of course, but I'll need to package reasonable as a debian for 'proper' distribution.

Also, it would be nice to have it in the upstream debian/ubuntu repos at some point!

gtfierro commented 1 year ago

@severin-lemaignan I've finally got my build pipeline working again and I'm taking a look at the Debian packaging. What architecture should I prioritize if I can't get them all working?

severin-lemaignan commented 1 year ago

great to hear! My target platform is amd64 (on ubuntu 20.04).

k00ni commented 1 year ago

Is there a working Debian/Ubuntu package available?

gtfierro / reasonable

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