The "Once More, with Working" release.

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@@ -2,8 +2,12 @@
 Installing PyAFS
 ================
 
 Installing PyAFS
 ================
 

-To install PyAFS, you will first need to install Cython_, which you
-can do by running::
+To install PyAFS, you will first need to install Cython_. It's always
+a good idea to install Cython through your package manager, if
+possible. Your system's Cython package may be named ``cython`` or
+``cython-py25``. If your package manager doesn't have a package for
+Cython, or if you wish to install Cython by hand anyway, you can do so
+by running::

 
   $ easy_install Cython
 
 
   $ easy_install Cython
 

@@ -20,4 +24,16 @@ which will build the C extensions in place next to their source,
 allowing you to import the various modules, so long as your current
 working directory is the root of the PyAFS source tree.
 
 allowing you to import the various modules, so long as your current
 working directory is the root of the PyAFS source tree.
 

+Alternatively, PyAFS has been packaged for Debian and Ubuntu. To build
+the Debian package of the latest release, run::
+
+  $ git checkout debian
+  $ git buildpackage
+  $ sudo debi
+
+You will need the devscripts and git-buildpackage packages installed,
+as well as this package's build dependencies (cdbs, debhelper,
+python-all-dev, python-support, python-pyrex, python-setuptools,
+libopenafs-dev).
+

 .. _Cython: http://cython.org/
 .. _Cython: http://cython.org/