Need help packaging

["Jean-Sebastien Pilon" <jspilon@PENSON.CA>]

Hello, 

Can someone spend a few minutes explain how to create a debian package
from binary files ?

I have read the documentation on debian.org and many howto on the web,
it is too advanced for what I am trying to achieve, and a little help
would be appreciated.

I had an rpm, converted to .deb using alien.

Extracted files off the package using dpkg --contents, since I want to
add some more files to the package. ( actually merge things together and
add default configuration that suits us )

I extracted the control files as well... And I have this

control  md5sums  postinst  postrm  prerm  shlibs

>From here I am not sure what I should do... Should I put everything
together, add my files and then do a dpkg --build off the root of the
packaging directory ? 


Any help would be appreciated.

TIA
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