Why is quickly ignoring the setup.py file in my project directory?

Question

Whenever I try to package my application with quickly, the following error pops up in my terminal:

And the package is in the directory. Whoop de doo.

Then, when I go to open the .deb file in Ubuntu Software Center to install it:

The application can install fine but the description is messed up. What's happening here? I do have a 64-bit version of Ubuntu, but does that make a difference? I know that the setup.py file is fine:

So whats going on?

Answer 1

Quickly is building the package just fine, it's simply that you haven't specified the package descriptions (the short one and the long one) for your app.

Try the following:

• Uncomment the description and long_description lines in setup.py
• Add the description for your app
• Re-run the quickly package command

That should sort it out.