Packaging python modules, the really easy way

I just had to package up a python package to make installation of a software we use at work easier. The systems we run here are Suse- and Ubuntu-based, so I got to package RPMs and debs. I did package the odd perl package and some bioinformatics tool before, but I haven't looked at it for a while, so I was pretty rusty. I use the OpenSuse Build Service to build RPMs, and the nice folks in FreeNode's #opensuse-buildservice pointed me a py2pack, a truly amazing piece of software that creates a .spec file for you from package information in pypi. Now, I had to package pysvn, which happens to not link to the downloadable file from pypi. As it turns out, this just stopped me from using py2pack for downloading the file, py2pack generate works fine. Filling in the missing License and Description information was easy, and my package was building on OBS in under five minutes. For Ubuntu, Python packaging guide was a bit less comfortable, but a short while afterwards my Ubuntu package was built on Launchpad as well. Life is good. At least so far, now I get to make all of that work for system #3 in the department. This happens to be an OS sold by a company from the northern west coast of the USA, and it doesn't have an execute bit and can't deal with hashbang lines. Oh well, two out of three isn't too bad.