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