I'm shipping a Python app for deployment on Debian servers. Providing a requirements.txt file with a list of all needed Python packages is very convenient when installing the app, especially when accompanied with a Makefile to automatically install from it using pip.
But as you know some Python packages depend on Linux system packages (Debian in this case), and it would be great if I could provide a similar file with my project to install them all in one step, and define the Makefile rule to automate it.
Do dpkg or apt provide such functionality?
I ended up just listing the required packages as arguments to apt install command, since there were not many of them.
I put the command is a Dockerfile and creating a Docker image is now my preferred way to automate how an app gets created and deployed.