[webo]

> Building with dh-virtualenv simply creates a debian package that includes a virtualenv, along with any dependencies listed in the requirements.txt file.

So how is this solving the first issue? If PyPI or the Git server is down, this is exactly like the git & pip option.

[stephenr]

You need those things up to build the package not to install it

[webo]

Ah I misunderstood the article. I just package my application source in a tar during deployment. I thought that's what most people do.

[stephenr]

Using a native package gives so much more power - you define that the package relies on python, and maybe a mysql or postgres client, redis, whatever it needs, and then just install the one package, and let apt/dpkg handle the dependencies.

I'm a big fan of using the config-package-dev package from DebAthena to build config packages, which allow for about 99.9% of Debian server setup to be defined in Debian packages.