For this we will use the new pypackager 3.0. There isn’t currently no graphical interface (but the UI will be available in version 3.1). This new version of PyPackager is a merge between PyPackager and Py2deb. It s provide the best of the two apps. The creation of debian package and a debian source package with the same parameters. I will try to explain with a example : Packaging pychecker. Create a working dir : mkdir /home/user/MyDocs/pychecker/ Download the source of pychecker in it : cd /home/user/MyDocs/pychecker/ wget http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=24686 Create a original folder : mkdir original cd original Uncompress it : tar -xvzf ../pychecker-0.8.18.tar.gz Use dumb setup.py this will install our python libs to a directory instead of root : python setup.py bdist_dumb cd .. Create a src directory : mkdir src cd src tar -xzvf ../original/pychecker-0.8.18/dist/PyChecker-0.8.18.linux-armv7l.tar.gz cd .. In the main pychecker folder create the following script : import pypackager import os p=pypackager.PyPackager("pychecker") #package name p.display_name('PyChecker') #package display name in HAM p.version = '0.8.18' #package version p.buildversion == '1' #package build version p.description="""PyChecker is a tool for finding bugs in python source code. It finds problems that are typically caught by a compiler for less dynamic languages, like C and C++.  It is similar to lint. Because of the dynamic nature of python, some warnings may be incorrect; however, spurious warnings should be fairly infrequent.""" #package description p.author='Neal Norwitz' #package author p.maintainer='Khertan' #package maintainer p.email='khertan@khertan.net' #package maintainer email p.depends = "python2.5" #package dependancies p.section="user/development" #package section p.arch="armel" #package arch p.urgency="low" #package urgency p.distribution="fremantle" #package distribution p.repository="extras-devel" #package repository p.bugtracker = 'khertan@khertan.net' #bug tracker field (could be a link http://bugs.maemo.org) p.postinstall="""#!/bin/sh chmod +x /usr/bin/pychecker""" # A post install script to set +x flag p.changelog ="""   * First Fremantle Release """ # the changelog dir_name='src' #src directory name #Here we will loop in all files, directory in src to add it to pkg for root, dirs, files in os.walk(dir_name):   real_dir = root[len(dir_name):]   fake_file = []   for f in files:       fake_file.append(root + os.sep + f + "|" + f)   if len(fake_file) > 0:       p[real_dir] = fake_file #Generate a package src print p.generate(build_binary=False,build_src=True) #Generate a binary src print p.generate(build_binary=True,build_src=False) Execute it : python /home/user/MyDocs/pychecker/make.py You will got some debug line in the terminal … And you will get 4 new files in /home/user/MyDocs/pychecker/ The first one is a debian package that you can test now on your device : pychecker_0.8.18-1_armel.deb The others are files required for extras assistant (https://garage.maemo.org/extras-assistant/) to send source package to the extras-builder : pychecker_0.8.18-1.changes pychecker_0.8.18-1.dsc pychecker_0.8.18-1.tar.gz Now you can upload your packages to extras-devel repository. Warning : Currently PyPackager still in developpment, do not hesitate to report me any bugs or problems you got. PyPackager 3.0 is only available in extras-devel and will not be available in extras until there isn’t any graphical interface. 2010-01-12 22:17 UTC with score 3