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Re:Debian Packaging Tutorial – Feedback Welcome by scrollaway on Sunday January 10, 2016 @11:48AM (#10875935)
Arch does have a lot of that. Not all of it, but it does have clean chroot building, gpg signing, linting etc. Mostly, arch does less testing as the philosophy is "trust upstream".

However, none of this is required for unofficial packages. You can do it, but you don't have to. This is where I'm saying you're conflating two different things - QA and packaging are separate.

Please don't get me wrong, I love debian and they do an incredible service to the Linux community with their testing. But why force it all on users that just want to build a simple package instead of doing make install as root?

Re:Debian Packaging Tutorial – Feedback Welcome by zlatan_todoric on Sunday January 10, 2016 @12:16PM (#10876053)
Again, QA is part of Debian packaging (just check all the debian lintian checks https://lintian.debian.org/tags-all.html - and you do officially run lintian on your packages).

Again, no one is forcing you to do official Debian packaging if you want to create simple deb for your purposes and it was mentioned in this thread by other and me several times (and several tools).