dh-python2 packaging

[adrelanos]

If you don't want to do #256, no problem. To help with #129 ...

Here is the deal:

I would try to come up with a pull request that ships a Makefile, a make-helper.bsh and a debian/ folder. It would produce a "lintian clean" (= no issues reported by the Debian policy checking tool) package, using dh-python2, that would simply install all files from the tuf folder (https://github.com/theupdateframework/tuf/tree/develop/tuf) to the /usr/lib/tuf/* folder. I.e. /usr/lib/tuf/sig.py etc.

It would not address the PyNaCl dependency issue that I described here:
#258 (comment)

But this PyNaCl issue cannot be solved within TUF's own repository anyhow.

This work needs to be done at some point anyhow.

How does that sound?

[vladimir-v-diaz]

The debian/ folder + Makefile + make-helper.bsh approach seems reasonable, it is similar to stdeb's debianize command that builds a debian/ folder alongside setup.py. A pull request would be appreciated.

Although I haven't tried stdeb, according to the documentation it should be simple:

1. Install stdeb
2. Navigate to TUF's root folder that contains setup.py
3. python setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_deb

Step 3 generates Debian source and binary packages.

[lukpueh]

Fixed by a2532a1. Thanks for the initiative, @adrelanos! Closing here.