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	BrentDC	2009-03-18 , 19:36
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Originally Posted by hns

I know I'm late to this thread, but there is actually a decent (if short) howto on python packaging for maemo in the last section of the tutorial on the pymaemo site. I used it as one of my main resources when I wrote Grumby last year (part of my motivation being in fact learning python + deb packaging).

The Grumby source tgz may also be useful as learning aid, since it's basically one python file with a lot of maemo/debian padding around. I remember looking at WordPy and other python packages for inspiration at the time.

Thank you hns, both the tutorial and Grumby source were extremely helpful. Today I was successfully able to build a .deb the "proper" way. I ended up creating a setup.py and Makefile files, and with a bit of troubleshooting, a few modifications to my rules and control files, it Just Worked (TM).

Now all that is left is figuring out the whole sign packages/gpg thing (because dpkg-buildpackage gave a few warnings about it), then just upload it to the autobuilder.

Originally Posted by mikkov

Show me the source! (I could guess something but I won't)

Thanks for all the help mikkov (and everyone else), but I finally have a working package.

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