help creating a package (splitting a package and publishing it)

[Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com>]

Hi

I am new to creating packages for Debian [1] and am in the process of
creating a debian package for my project.

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The project builds a shared library, two executables and provides
development API headers. At the moment, the output is all built into
one deb file. I want to break this up so that it complies with debian
packaging rules but I am not sure how.

Do I need to add custom installation commands to the debian/rules file
(in addition to what is provided by autotools)? If not, how do I get
the shared library into the correct package?

Do I need to become a Debian maintainer and upload the package to
mentors.debian.net?

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[1]

Package : cainteoir-engine
Version : 0.1 (I will update this to 0.2 once the packaging issues are resolved)
Upstream Author : Reece H. Dunn
URL : http://rhdunn.github.com/cainteoir/
Git Browse : https://github.com/rhdunn/cainteoir-engine
License : GPLv3
Languages : C++ (with Python in the tests)
Section : sound

Applications:

  *  cainteoir -- command-line interface to the text-to-speech program
(currently using espeak; supports text, html and epub files, as well
as gzip compressed text/html files)
  *  metadata -- metadata extractor/converter; can read epub, rdf/xml
and smil metadata; can output RDF N-Triple and Turtle metadata as well
as VorbisComments

Thanks,
- Reece