Comment 39 for bug 104332

Kees Cook wrote:
> Supermike, I'll have a Dapper .deb up for you to try shortly.
>

Kees, I've seen your name a lot around here, so I assume that means
you're a Good Guy (tm) and a great person to ask a lingering, albeit
tangent question. I've recently starting building debs out of some of
my own cruft, hoping to someday spiff it up enough for the rest of the
world to laugh at. :)

Anyway, I mostly write python and as I'm sure you're aware, it's rather
portable, if done right. Can you point me to a good source of info on
building debs for Ubuntu/Debian the right way. I already use svn and
can clearly see from what I've learned so far that Debian and by
extension Ubuntu too benefit from lots of automation. I hope to make
packages that work on a wide range of Ubuntu releases, yet work mostly
at the source level. I don't want to fiddle with the stuff in between
each time each change, except to set up the automation.

I've already read the Debian New Maint Guide insofar as much as was
needed to build my first few.

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JohnF_