Hi, I worked on a system to extend the Perl MakeMaker utility to generate and install a .deb rather than installing directly, however that was a very long time ago and the code is now obselete. I don't know if anyone has done anything in this area since (?). But if you want to pick up the project, my code is at http://mojo.calyx.net/~bri/projects/Debian/ExtUtils/ and you are very welcome to use any of the ideas/code there. -- Brian S. Julin