To test in a development environment 

You need to run make to get the vcstools imported into the devel tree.  

source setup.sh so as to add /src to your bashrc

To test on your local machine you can call make install, with checkinstall installed such that it will make a local deb you can then easily remove. 

To release there are release numbers in 3 places, Makefile, setup.py and rosinstall all need to be updated.  The Makefile will check they are correct.  

To upload to pypi make push
To upload to ppa make upload
  You will need stdeb available from pip, and 


