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Re: Python package providing both modules and an app

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On 06/21/2016 11:13 PM, Hugo Lefeuvre wrote:
> Hi all !
> 
> I'm currently packaging python-slugify[0], a Python application for
> slugifying unicode strings. Like here[1] upstream decided to write 
> everything as a python module with an entry script placed in /usr/bin
> that calls main(). So we can consider python-slugify as both an application
> and a library.
> 
> The package is originally requested as a Python module[2] and it seems 
> clear to me that the whole thing is only useful as a library, so I've 
> named the source package 'python-slugify'. It provides following packages: 
>  * 'python-slugify' (Python 2 lib), 
>  * 'python3-slugify' (Python 3 lib),
>  * 'slugify' (ships the entry script[3], depends on python3-slugify). 
> 
> Everything is working well. However, I'm not really satisfied by the way I 
> solved the problem in debian/rules[4]. Does anybody know a better way 
> of doing that ?
> 
> Cheers,
>  Hugo

Hugo,

I did lots of that in OpenStack. You can have a look at one of our tool
to handle the dh_auto_install for Python:

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/openstack/openstack-pkg-tools.git/tree/build-tools/pkgos-dh_auto_install

The way to use it in your debian/rules file is to do:
pkgos-alternative slugify slugify

[ this tool is available at:
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/openstack/openstack-pkg-tools.git/tree/misc/pkgos-alternative-bin
]

then simply do:

override_dh_auto_install:
	pkgos-dh_auto_install

and that's it, it will handle the /usr/bin/python{3,}-slugify
alternative implementations for you.

I hope that helps,
Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)

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Python package providing both modules and an app Hugo Lefeuvre <hle@debian.org> - 2016-06-21 23:20 +0200
  Re: Python package providing both modules and an app Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-06-22 03:30 +0200
    Re: Python package providing both modules and an app Hugo Lefeuvre <hle@debian.org> - 2016-06-22 22:00 +0200
      Re: Python package providing both modules and an app Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-06-23 03:10 +0200
        Re: Python package providing both modules and an app Hugo Lefeuvre <hle@debian.org> - 2016-06-23 18:40 +0200
          Re: Python package providing both modules and an app Hugo Lefeuvre <hle@debian.org> - 2016-06-30 08:30 +0200
      Re: Python package providing both modules and an app Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2016-07-05 10:50 +0200
    Re: Python package providing both modules and an app Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2016-06-23 03:00 +0200
      Python program as a command-line program (was: Python package providing both modules and an app) Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-06-23 03:20 +0200
        Re: Python program as a command-line program (was: Python package  providing both modules and an app) Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2016-06-24 21:30 +0200
          Re: Python program as a command-line program Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-06-27 09:00 +0200
      Re: Python package providing both modules and an app Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmingov@gmail.com> - 2016-06-23 03:30 +0200
  Re: Python package providing both modules and an app Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2016-07-05 10:40 +0200
    Re: Python package providing both modules and an app Hugo Lefeuvre <hle@debian.org> - 2016-07-05 16:50 +0200
      Re: Python package providing both modules and an app Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2016-07-05 21:00 +0200

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