Debianization
This document is a brief introduction to how to Debianize a piece of software, i.e. to create a package for a Debian or Ubuntu distribution so that it can be managed alongside other system software.
You'll need a few packages for doing Debian development, so you should run
$ sudo aptitude install build-essential dh-make devscripts cdbs equivs lintian dpatch quilt dpkg-dev
If you're a fan of Emacs as a text editor, you should also run
$ sudo aptitude install debian-el devscripts-el dpkg-dev-el
Preparing the source
To prepare a source directory for Debianization, you'll first want to rename the directory to the form -.
Everything else
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