Debian Packaging for Dumies

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dpkg-buildpackage could be used to build a custom debian package after some one download the package from pypi.

For example:

wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/o/obspy.core/obspy.core-0.4.8.zip
unzip obspy.core-0.4.8.zip
cd obspy.core-0.4.8
fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc