An excellent guide to building Debian/Ubuntu packages across many platforms
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Runs through how to set things up so that you can easily put together a
number of packages for different distributions, architectures, etc.</p>
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<a href="http://www.davromaniak.eu/index.php?post/2011/03/03/The-ultimate-package-building-system">Go
read it</a>.</p>
One minute to read
Michael Alan Dorman