what creates a Packages{,.gz} etc. file ?

[Andrew J Cosgriff <ajc@polydistortion.net>]

Pardon my ineptitude, but I'm trying to work out the process of making
a little test package directory to chuck into apt's sources.list, and
I'm unsure how one goes about making the Packages, Packages.gz,
Release (etc.) files that need to live in there along with the actual
package files themselves.

I'm presuming there's a program to autogenerate them, but having poked
about with "apt-cache search" and at the new maintainers guide et al,
I've been unable to find the package that does this (I suppose I
missed something obvious somewhere ?)

Help !

Thanks heeps,
 Andrew
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