[[!meta title="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 This article is a stub. You can help by expanding it.