As of writing, not all dependencies are in Debian. That is why a virtualenv approach is used that is shipping various dependencies without the package.

Before building the package, call the following command to prepare all non-code files for inclusion:

./pre-release.sh

In the repository root execute the following command to build a Debian package.

dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc

It is advised to build packages in a minimal chroot instead, so dependencies can be detected and added properly.

Install pbuilder:

sudo apt install pbuilder

Enable network access during builds to download python dependencies:

echo USENETWORK=yes >> ~/.pbuilderrc

Create chroot environment image:

sudo pbuilder create --distribution stable

Build the package:

pdebuild

If everything goes well, you should find the Debian package in

/var/cache/pbuilder/result/