Re:Electric Sheep on Ubuntu Linux 17.10
by TheArcane on Friday November 10, 2017 @06:47AM
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Me too! Is this how deb packages are usually made?
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No, generally there is a debian directory with things like rules, control file, copyright etc.
A .deb is basically a tarball with some manifest information. You can build 'non-standard' packages in this way (also see FPM[1] - which will do this and more rpm etc). However if you ever want to upstream a package, there are guidelines that debian produce around this.