Updatedd on 3/10/23

Creating Debian Packages

You can create Debian Packages with:

dpkg-buildpackage, which requires the "dpkg-dev" package.

sudo apt install dpkg-dev

or with

debuild, which requires the "devscrips" package.

sudo apt install devscripts

You will also need a helper package "debmake", which produces the required changelog, control, and rules files and other templates such as copyright.

sudo apt install debmake

Yuo will also need dch to edit the changelog file. It included with the devscripts package.

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -uc -us

• -rfakeroot - Create fakeroot to simulate root privilleges (avoids owneership and permissions issues)
• -uc - Do NOT cryptographically sign the changelog i.e. Do not sign the .buildinfo and .change files.
• -us - Do NOT sign the source package

or debuild with the following options:

build -b -uc -us

Hardening

By default Debian has enabled "hardening" to help programmer write better code and catch potential run time errors. However, if you are just trying to compile someone else's source code, such as a repository on GetHub, this causes big problems.

References

• How To Build Debian Packages From Source
• How To Build Debian Packages - A simple Example - Debmake!