JFYI, I just moved my packaging script from py2deb to the current version of pypackager.

EDIT: The following note concerned py2deb, and not the current version of pypackager, which works great without any hacks. I got confused by playing with both packagers simultaneously.

On my n900 environment, it complained about an 'import *' in the script, but after commenting that out it works great - generates the source tarball as well as a finished deb package to try out before uploading to the autobuilder.

/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/py2deb.py - comment out line #635:

Code:

           #from subprocess import *