python packaging - icons/desktop files and /usr/bin accessibility

David Timms dtimms at iinet.net.au
Mon May 5 12:32:50 UTC 2008


I'm packaging a basic python program, and request some guidance:

1. the app has three main .py programs, and another 10 or so .py 
modules. My installed rpm puts these in site-packages/appname which I 
understand the guidelines to require. Problem is these are not 
accessible as a user because they aren't on the path.
So it works if I /usr/lib/python../site-packages/myapp/app1.py

Should I be messing with the path ?
Creating a shell script for each of the main programs, and dropping them 
in /usr/bin ?

2. The app is a gui app, but has no icon nor desktop file. I thought I 
might have a go at adjusting the gnome flash player icon to represent 
flash recording capability. I guess I would need to talk to that 
upstream project to see if that would be OK ?
The same with the upstream of my package to see if they are happy to 
have there app represented  in this way ?

0. Should I be submitting the package review, with queries about the 
above, or is it better to get this stuff sorted here first ?

DaveT.




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