Bug#525694: python-debian: please use setuptools

[Philipp Kern]

Package: python-debian
Version: 0.1.13
Severity: wishlist

Hi there,

I just uploaded python-debian to PyPI[0].  I need current versions of
python-debian and due to bumped build-dependencies (like in this case
python-support) and sometimes changed rules files backports often
become a pain if the maintainers don't do them themselves.  Thus
I uploaded an egg there which I use with python-virtualenv.

Now to the request: it would be nice if python-debian could switch
to python-setuptools (from distutils) because the former is able to
generate those eggs.  The change is as simple as this and an additional
build dependency:

In setup.py change the import from
  from distutils.core import setup
to
  from setuptools import setup
.

Additionally it would be nice if you could include the following two
keyword arguments in setup.py:

  maintainer='Debian python-debian Maintainers',
  maintainer_email='pkg-python-debian-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org',

TIA,
Philipp Kern

[0] http://pypi.python.org/pypi?name=python-debian&version=0.1.13&:action=display
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