I am trying to package my Python software with stdeb:
python setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_deb
which works fine.
Unfortunately, stdeb adds the variable ${python:Depends}
to the debian/control file. This placeholder is automatically processed by dh_python2
from debhelper
and gets replaced by a string containing multiple Python versions, e.g.: "python2.7, python (>= 2.7.1-0ubuntu2), python (<< 2.8)"
.
How can I get rid of these automatically added Python versions or how can I override ${python:Depends}
?
Note: The actual problem is the python
dependency. The target system provides the package python2.7
with version 2.7.3
, but python
is still at 2.6.6
.
What you actually need to do instead is to add something like
X-Python-Version: >= 2.6
to source package indebian/control
and to addpython-all
orpython-all-dev
toBuild-Depends
. This will work if you're building for the right suite wherepython-all
depends on bothpython2.6
andpython2.7
. It is a good idea to usepbuilder
in order to build for target system especially if it is different from your development environment. Please do not override${python:Depends}
-- it is wrong and will do no good.