Building Debian Packages

[George Bonser <grep@oriole.sbay.org>]

In the course of our work, we will need to create .deb packages of our
specific contributions as well as unpacking existing debian packages, make
changes to various defaults and repack them.

In light of this, I have asked a frequent correspondant on other mailing
lists, Orn Hansen, to give us a basic rundown of creating a debian
package.  I did this because he has been a debian package maintainer and I
wanted to avoid us all jumping into debian-devel while Debian-2.0 is still
being put together.  I could point you to the docs but it is sometimes
nice to have someone that you can ask a question of when you hit a snag in
the process.

Orn has advised me that he has subscribed to seul-dev-distrib and I thik 
he is much better qualified that I in describing the package building
process though I will become VERY much more familliar with the process in
the coming days.

Welcone, Orn.

George Bonser 
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