1 [[!meta title="Debianization"]]
3 This document is a brief introduction to how to Debianize a piece of
4 software, i.e. to create a package for a Debian or Ubuntu distribution
5 so that it can be managed alongside other system software.
7 You'll need a few packages for doing Debian development, so you should run
9 `$ sudo aptitude install build-essential dh-make devscripts cdbs equivs lintian dpatch quilt dpkg-dev`
11 If you're a fan of Emacs as a text editor, you should also run
13 `$ sudo aptitude install debian-el devscripts-el dpkg-dev-el`
15 ## Preparing the source
17 To prepare a source directory for Debianization, you'll first want to
18 rename the directory to the form <package>-<version>.
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