Source: dirtbike Maintainer: Barry Warsaw Homepage: https://github.com/paulproteus/dirtbike Section: python X-Python3-Version: >= 3.4 Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), dh-python, help2man, python3-all, python3-pkg-resources, python3-setuptools, python3-wheel Standards-Version: 3.9.7 Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/dirtbike.git Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/dirtbike.git Package: dirtbike Architecture: all Depends: python3-distutils, python3-pkg-resources, ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends} Description: turn system-installed Python packages into wheels The purpose of this package is to make it easier to devendorize other packages which bundle various upstream packages. An example of this is pip, which bundles a half-dozen or so other upstream packages. In Debian and other distros, such vendoring is frowned upon. To make it easier to devendorize, dirtbike turns installed system packages into wheels, and these wheels can then be used instead of the vendored packages.