A basic question about packaging a cabalized program

[Dmitry V'yal <akamaus@gmail.com>]

Hello list,

For several days I have been struggling with a seemingly easy problem. 
I'm trying to build a deb package out of my cabalized haskell program.

I found a cabal-debian program on hackage and generated a 'debian' 
directory for my package. But when I run dpkg-buildpackage, I get an 
empty deb as a result.

I'm new to debian packaging so I can't diagnose, what's exactly going 
wrong. But seems to me part of problem is in cabal not installing files 
into DESTDIR.

Can someone point me on some easy examples of sources of deb packages of 
haskell software? Is where any actual tutorial on packaging haskell for 
debian available online? I googled some, but they all seem to be 
hopelessly outdated.

Thanks,
Dmitry