Python / Debian package dependencies

[Steven Samuel Cole]

Hey Paul

thanks for your reply! :-)

2008/11/21 Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk>:
> Are you saying that psycopg2 needs setuptools for the setup.py script
> to work? This isn't generally the case (or wasn't), but maybe the
> "entry point" is a setuptools thing which would then demand that
> software's presence.

Not exactly. My package requires psycopg2 to run and (from what it
looks like to me) setuptools must be available in order to use its
installation mechanism (setup.py, entry points, etc.)

> How does stdeb know which package provides psycopg2? I'm not really
> familiar with stdeb - I write my own packaging files - but might it be
> the case that you need to specify python-psycopg2 instead?

I tried python-psycopg2, but that caused a ValueError in stdeb about a
'parenthesized list' -psycopg2.
By trial & error I found out that I seem to have to use the package
name without the python- bit, because then stdeb does run without
error.

If the name was really the issue, I would at least expect stdeb to
report an error about an unknown package or so...

Cheers,

Stefan

2008/11/21 Steven Samuel Cole <steven.samuel.cole at gmail.com>:
> Hey Paul
>
> thanks for your reply! :-)
>
> 2008/11/21 Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk>:
>> Are you saying that psycopg2 needs setuptools for the setup.py script
>> to work? This isn't generally the case (or wasn't), but maybe the
>> "entry point" is a setuptools thing which would then demand that
>> software's presence.
>
> Not exactly. My package requires psycopg2 to run and (from what it
> looks like to me) setuptools must be available in order to use its
> installation mechanism (setup.py, entry points, etc.)
>
>> How does stdeb know which package provides psycopg2? I'm not really
>> familiar with stdeb - I write my own packaging files - but might it be
>> the case that you need to specify python-psycopg2 instead?
>
> I tried python-psycopg2, but that caused a ValueError in stdeb about a
> 'parenthesized list' -psycopg2.
> By trial & error I found out that I seem to have to use the package
> name without the python- bit, because then stdeb does run without
> error.
>
> If the name was really the issue, I would at least expect stdeb to
> report an error about an unknown package or so...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stefan
>