Debian Packaging 1

##What is a package By definition Debian packages are standard Unix ar archives that include two tar archives optionally compressed with gzip (zlib), Bzip2, lzma, or xz (lzma2): one archive holds the control information and another contains the program data. All debain packages should follow certain conventions. The root source directory should contain a directory named debian. This directory contains files which stores info about the package. These are the required files under the debian directory

Now once you have the source directory in the prescribed format. you will need a .tar.gz archive of the source in the same folder.Then we can create a debian binary package using

debuild -i -us -uc -b

Or a debian source package using

debuild -i -us -uc -S

Nithin Murali