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pypkg is a tool which facilitates the development and maintenance of debian packages

Initial Ideas:

• List the key steps in creating Debian packages
• List which steps which will be implemented
• How will be the
  • command-line
  • pygtk

• create a frontend with the archives and the directory <pkg_name-version>/debian

• bzr to manage the <pkg_name-version>/debian

• integration with meld to generate packages
• edit source code and edit
• run lintian/linda on the packet
• show what is happening in the application (in a similar way to update-manager)
• automatic dependency generation -- look for dependencies in the source code
• copyright inferred from the heads of the source files
• configuration archive in ~/.pypkg

Command Line Functionality:

* pypkg-admin <startproject> <name_of_project>

• Create a base dir name_of_project/.dsc .orig .tar.gz and etc;
• Create and scheme debian;
• Look for dependencies

* pypkg-admin <conf> <--flag> <property> <value>

• Ex: pkg-admin config --meta author Name_of_Devel

  Ex: pkg-admin config --meta email Name_Devel@devel.org and etc. Configuration archive ~/.pypkg front end on dh-make