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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Debian 10 (“buster”)? by wbkang on Sunday June 18, 2017 @11:42AM (#14581116)
How about checkinstall for making a quick and dirty package? :P
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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Debian 10 (“buster”)? by aleden on Sunday June 18, 2017 @05:40PM (#14583105)
I've had very bad experience with checkinstall.

The idea seems perfectly sound, but the implementation needs a lot of work. The UI needs to be better (e.g. saving your answers to the questions about title, author, etc.) And there are also some straight up bugs. It has crashed for me many times. And not even for a sketchy program- I'm talking like llvm.

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