This repository is used for building the python-jsonschema .deb package for debian and ubuntu. Building the package ------------------------- 1. set up environment variables, making sure the full name and email exactly match the GPG key used to sign: $ export DEBFULLNAME="Your Name" $ export DEBEMAIL="Your.Email@address.here" 2. Download the tarball from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ping/ 3. Unpack the tarball 4. cd into the source directory 5. run dh_make: $ dh_make -s -f ../ping-0.2.tar.gz -e -p python-ping 6. edit the debian/control using the following fields: Source: python-ping Maintainer: Your Name Section: python Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), python-support (>= 0.8.4) Standards-Version: 3.8.4 Package: python-ping Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python:Depends} XB-Python-Version: ${python:Versions} Provides: ${python:Provides} Description: An implementation of ICMP ping in Python 7. edit the debian/copyright file 8. specify supported python versions: $ echo "2.6-" > debian/pyversions 9. [TODO] edit the debian/changelog file 10. run debuild $ debuild