What is dh-virtualenv
dh-virtualenv is a tool that aims to combine Debian packaging with
self-contained virtualenv based Python deployments. To do this, the
package extends debhelper’s sequence by providing a new command in sequence,
dh_virtualenv, which effectively replaces following commands
from the sequence:
- dh_auto_install
- dh_python2
- dh_pycentral
- dh_pysupport
In the sequence the dh_virtualenv is inserted right after
dh_perl.
Changelog
Following list contains most notable changes by version. For full list
consult the git history of the project.
0.10
- Backwards incompatible Fix installation using the built-in
virtual environment on 3.4. This might break installation on Python
versions prior to 3.4 when using –builtin-venv flag. Thanks to
Elonen for fixing!
- Honor DH_VIRTUALENV_INSTALL_ROOT in build system. Thanks to
Ludwig Hähne for implementing!
- Allow overriding virtualenv arguments by using the
DH_VIRTUALENV_ARGUMENTS environment variable when using the
build system. Thanks to Ludwig Hähne
for implementing!
- Add option to skip installation of the actual project. In other
words using --skip-install installs only the dependencies of the
project found in requirements.txt. Thanks to Phillip
O’Donnell for implementing!
- Support custom installation suffix instead of the package name via
--install-suffix. Thanks to Phillip
O’Donnell for implementing!
0.9
- Support using system packages via a command line flag
--use-system-packages. Thanks to Wes Mason for implementing this feature!
- Introduce a new, experimental, more modular build system. See the
Building packages with dh-virtualenv for documentation.
- Respect the DEB_NO_CHECK environment variable.
0.8
- Support for running triggers upon host interpreter update. This new
feature makes it possible to upgrade the host Python interpreter
and avoid breakage of all the virtualenvs installed with
virtualenv. For usage, see the the Tutorial. Huge thanks to
Jürgen Hermann for implementing
this long wanted feature!
- Add support for the built-in venv module. Thanks to Petri
Lehtinen!
- Allow custom pip flags to be passed via the
--extra-pip-args flag. Thanks to @labeneator for the feature.
0.7
- Backwards incompatible Support running tests. This change
breaks builds that use distutils. For those cases a flag
--no-test needs to be passed.
- Add tutorial to documentation
- Don’t crash on debbuild parameters -i and -a
- Support custom source directory (debhelper’s flag -D)
0.6
First public release of dh-virtualenv