HOWTO: Making .deb packages?

[tanari]

How to make .deb packages?

[flygmaskin]

How to make .deb packages?
There is a great tutorial at http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/

[fng]

Great tutorial, but not easy for us newbies :/

[oddabe19]

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2356

that's my howto on using checkinstall... which is nice and easy to make .deb packages

[jdong]

I'd have to say, the outlined procedure is _QUITE_ simple, they even walk you through making one. The process can virtually be cut-and-pasted for any source package, and does not appear any more complicated than checkinstall.

Note that checkinstall isn't perfect; It doesn't handle symlinks properly (they appear to be stripped in the process)

[clauD]

use checkinstall
is very easy
i make a deb pachage witch checkinstall
a clone of vypresschat
vqcc-gtk
and is work