easy-deb python module packager

Hi,

I just had a bit of a painful experience attempting to get easy-deb to work with multiple versions of setuptools installed.

I had setuptools-0.6a9 installed (some other packages I have installed needed it) so after installing:

python-pypi-easydeb_0.2.0-4.4_all.deb python2.4-pypi-easydeb_0.2.0-4.4_all.deb
python-setuptools_0.6a1-2_all.deb python2.4-setuptools_0.6a1-2_all.deb

I then had two versions (a0 and a9).

Running easy-deb produced:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/easy-deb", line 28, in ?
import easydeb
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/pypi-packages/easydeb-0.2.0-py2.4.egg/easydeb/__init__.py", line 1, in ?
from easy_deb import *
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/pypi-packages/easydeb-0.2.0-py2.4.egg/easydeb/easy_deb.py", line 31, in ?
import easy_install
File "/usr/bin/easy_install.py", line 4, in ?
pkg_resources.run_script('setuptools==0.6a0', 'easy_install.py')
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6a9-py2.4.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 407, in run_script
self.require(requires)[0].run_script(script_name, ns)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6a9-py2.4.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 503, in require
needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6a9-py2.4.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 487, in resolve
raise VersionConflict(dist,req) # XXX put more info here
pkg_resources.VersionConflict: (setuptools 0.6a9 (/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6a9-py2.4.egg), Requirement.parse('setuptools==0.6a0'))

Is there any hope of installing easy-deb alongside other versions of setuptools?

If I can get easy-deb installed it'll make me feel alot happier about installing eggs. :)

Schiavo
Simon