Where are the Debian packages?

Asked by Thomas Preston

Where are the Debian packages for python-uinput or how to I create them myself? I do not have the appropriate tarballs to run `dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc`.

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Best a (tuomasjjrasanen) said :
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I once had pre-built binary packages for Python-uinput, but have lost
some of the intrest partly because I realised that it would never
satisfy all users (some looking for RPMs, others in format X) and partly
because it took too much time (maintaining and enhancing the software
itself takes time, let alone packaging it).

So instead of packaging the software myself, I have tried to make the
source release as distribution-agnostic and packager-friendly as
possible. I was happy to notice, that others have packaged python-uinput
succesfully for Arch and Fedora. Unfortunately, it's still not in
Debian. I haven't yet managed to find enough time/will power to
propose/push python-uinput to Debian's Python team, but it has always
been in my mind. Perhaps someone would like to help us?

Luckily, there is another really simple and clean (not as clean as deb,
but good enough) and distribution-agnostic mechanism for Python
packages: pip

apt-get install pip
pip install python-uinput # Installs to /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
pip uninstall python-uinput # does what you expect

It fetches python-uinput from the official Python Package Index.

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Thomas Preston (thomasmarkpreston) said :
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Thanks Tuomas Räsänen, that solved my question.