Create a package for Debian

[buckket]

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

[timofurrer]

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]

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

• https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/python-click
• https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/python-aiohttp
• https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/python-dateutil
• https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/python-humanize

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

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:

• https://github.com/astraw/stdeb
• https://wiki.debian.org/Python/Pybuild

Are there other ways?

[timofurrer]

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]

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