Debian Packaging Quick Start
Explore how to efficiently start Debian packaging projects by using dh_make, which automates creating the debian directory and skeleton files. Understand the role of language-specific package tools for Perl, Python, Node.js, and more to generate metadata and dependencies automatically. This lesson helps you streamline building single or multi-architecture Debian packages by preparing and customizing the package control files effectively.
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If we create several Debian packages, we quickly get tired of creating similar files over and over again.
Either we’ll start copying the debian/* files from an old project, or we
will start to look for alternatives. One such alternative is dh_make, a
tool designed to quickly create a new debian/ directory.
There are also specialized tools for several programming languages that
create debian/ directories from language-specific packages and that
tend to provide more metadata than plain ...