How to make your own .DEB?

[tikal26]

I am wondering how do you make your own .deb packages. I jsut starting thinking about that since some Debian packages can break Ubuntu, but I always hear people sayinf that ubuntu uses Debian and their packages as a base.

[krusbjorn]

Easiest way is to "sudo apt-get install checkinstall".
And then, when you have run "./configure" and "make" on your source code, do "checkinstall" instead of "make install".

[John.Michael.Kane]

http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html
http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/
http://www.maemo.org/platform/docs/howtos/howto_making_an_application_package.html
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2356