Top 4 Python Deb Projects

termux-create-package

39 395 3.7 Python

Python script to create Termux packages easily.
localslackirc

6 137 9.1 Python

IRC gateway for slack, running on localhost for one user

Project mention: Mental Health in Open Source | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-16

> Really? Just a git command, a button press on GitHub? So why don't they just do it? Why don't they apply the patches when people send the code in then?
Because the patch was bad.
> Something like a month later the guy just rewrote the patch without even engaging with me.
Do you think he'd have done that if the patch was good? Was his version completely identical to yours?
> Yeah, that made me feel like shit
At least it didn't introduce a new bug to every user… I'm sure collective feelings of the userbase were less harmed in this case.
> Sorry but maintainers don't have the moral superiority to demand free labor
But you have the moral superiority to demand free labour from maintainers, to review, improve, test your patch?
Look at this pull request for example: https://github.com/ltworf/localslackirc/pull/387
How could a thing like that be merged?
When asked to split it, he just proceeded to open tens of pull requests that were all based on the previous one, in a chain. And every commit contains thousands of lines of unrelated changes with what the description is.
Then he got upset.

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Discord-PPA

1 49 0.0 Python

A private package that downloads the latest Discord .deb file available from official website
edamame

1 8 3.0 Python

Linux System Installation Utility for Debian-based distributions (by drauger-os-development)

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