Re: How to create package without source code

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Subject: Re: How to create package without source code
From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 10:49:29 +0200
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 1cbe6313-4fe8-6edb-c290-47af8339bb96@gmail.com> (Alex Mestiashvili's message of "Wed, 27 Jul 2016 10:14:09 +0200")
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On 2016-07-27 10:14 +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:

> Here is the manual describing how to build binary packages:
>
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Debian-Binary-Package-Building-HOWTO/

This is over ten years old and only for hardcore users.  Creating a
source package (even if it's just a tarball containing all the files you
want to install) and producing a binary package from that is much
easier, since the helper commands then hide all the gory details from
you.

Cheers,
       Sven

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