old_contents: from distutils.core import setup
  import codecs
  
  with codecs.open('README.rst', encoding='utf-8') as f:
      long_description = '\n'.join( [line for line in f] )
  
  setup(name='stdeb',
        # Keep version in sync with stdeb/__init__.py, Install section
        # of README.rst, and USER_AGENT in scripts/pypi-install.
        version='0.8.2',
        author='Andrew Straw',
        author_email='strawman@astraw.com',
        description='Python to Debian source package conversion utility',
        long_description=long_description,
        license='MIT',
        url='http://github.com/astraw/stdeb',
        packages=['stdeb','stdeb.command'],
        scripts=['scripts/py2dsc',
                 'scripts/py2dsc-deb',
                 'scripts/pypi-download',
                 'scripts/pypi-install',
                 ],
        classifiers=[
          'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
          'Intended Audience :: Developers',
          'Intended Audience :: System Administrators',
          'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License',
          'Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux',
          'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
          'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
      ],
  )
  
new_contents: from distutils.core import setup
  
  with open('README.rst') as file:
      long_description = file.read()
  
  setup(name='stdeb',
        # Keep version in sync with stdeb/__init__.py, Install section
        # of README.rst, and USER_AGENT in scripts/pypi-install.
        version='0.8.2',
        author='Andrew Straw',
        author_email='strawman@astraw.com',
        description='Python to Debian source package conversion utility',
        long_description=long_description,
        license='MIT',
        url='http://github.com/astraw/stdeb',
        packages=['stdeb','stdeb.command'],
        scripts=['scripts/py2dsc',
                 'scripts/py2dsc-deb',
                 'scripts/pypi-download',
                 'scripts/pypi-install',
                 ],
        classifiers=[
          'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
          'Intended Audience :: Developers',
          'Intended Audience :: System Administrators',
          'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License',
          'Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux',
          'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
          'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
      ],
  )
  
subject: simplify setup.py