What needs to be done to make a package ready to be accepted in debian

[stuaxo]

I can see some candidate in the issue tracker:

doesn't create debian/copyright #30
copy README, README.rst to /usr/share/doc/package/ #120

One thing I tried is running lintian:

lintian pubsub_0.1.2-1_source.changes
E: pubsub changes: bad-distribution-in-changes-file unstable
E: pubsub source: missing-build-dependency-for-dh-addon python3 => dh-python
E: pubsub source: missing-build-dependency-for-dh_-command dh_python2 => dh-python
W: pubsub source: ancient-standards-version 3.9.1 (released 2010-07-26) (current is 4.5.0)
W: pubsub source: no-debian-copyright-in-source
W: pubsub source: package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version 9

[stuaxo]

Switched to python2=False, things now look a litttle better, but not quite there yet:

lintian python3-pubsub_0.1.2-1_all.deb 
E: python3-pubsub: extended-description-is-empty
E: python3-pubsub: no-copyright-file
W: python3-pubsub: new-package-should-close-itp-bug

[Evidlo]

This didn't work for me, and it seems like this is for an old version of stdeb.

What did work was adding --build-depends dh-python --copyright-file my_copyright_file.

The full command looks like:

python3 setup.py \
	--command-packages=stdeb.command sdist_dsc \
	--sign-results \
	--copyright-file debian_copyright \
	--build-depends dh-python

[stuaxo]

Nice :) is this in the docs ?

It's been a few years since I tried stdeb, but this could be a good example if it's not there already.