This repository is used for building the python-requests .deb package for debian and ubuntu.

The debian packaging files are located in the debian branch.

Building the package
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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/requests 

3. Unpack the tarball

4. cd into the source directory

5. run dh_make:
$ dh_make -s -f ../requests-0.14.0.tar.gz -e <Your.Email@address.here> -p python-requests

6. edit the debian/control file using the following fields:

    Source: python-requests
    Maintainer: Your Name <Your.Email@address.here> 
    Section: python
    Priority: optional
    Build-Depends: python-setuptools (>= 0.6b3), debhelper (>= 7), python-support (>= 0.8.4)
    Standards-Version: 3.8.4
    
    Package: python-requests
    Architecture: all
    Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python:Depends}
    XB-Python-Version: ${python:Versions}
    Provides: ${python:Provides}
    Description: Python HTTP for Humans.

7. edit the debian/copyright file, using the COPYING file in the source tree for the copyright text.

8. specify supported python versions:
$ echo "2.6-" > debian/pyversions

9. [TODO] edit the debian/changelog file

10. run debuild
$ debuild