installation of .deb

[bee-mere]

Hi,

I'm new to packaging for debian, so please excuse me if this is a stupid question.

I closely followed the getting started tutorial, which helped me to successfully build a debian package from a bare minimum python package.

Installing it using the command sudo dpkg -i ../hello-pack_0.1-1_amd64.deb also worked fine (i.e. no errors). Now I would like to be able to run the script from the python package from anywhere.
To achieve this, I think that something like what is described in "Making executables available" is necessary. However, neither debian/«pkgname»/opt/venvs/«venvname»/bin nor any other directory under debian/«pkgname» contains the executable from my python package, so I don't know what link to add.
In another tutorial on packaging, the python executable is copied to debian/«pkgname»/usr/bin by a command in debian/rules.

So now my question: what is the correct way to do this for a package built with dh-virtualenv, also s.t. the executable is executed in the created virtualenv? Here is a link to the repository, in which I am trying this. Any hint would be greatly appreciated!

It seems to me that this is a pretty standard use case for dh-virtualenv. Therefore, maybe, it would be worth to extend the Getting Started with information on what I try to find out with this.

Thanks in advance.

[Jürgen Hermann]

The tutorial assumes you followed common Python patterns, which in this case means to have setuptools console entry points. Then there is something in "bin".

[bee-mere]

Thank you!