Debian Packaging

• There are countless (often deprecated) tutorials
  and different variants about how to create a Debian package

• Quite a difficult djungle to fight through even with a Machete
  only to discover that from all that information you only need a small amount.

• Most HowTos start with Getting the Upstream Tarball
  but most of the time you don't have or need this.

• Very often you only have a shell skript, binary or JAR file or something similar
  which you just want to get into a package
  so that you can take advantage of the system's package manager and not bypass it.

• What follows is a guide to quickly create packages with some optional variants.

• You should always make sure, that a package is in good shape, but applying all the rules
  of the Debian Policy would be overkill (Remember: We are pragmatic here)

  If you want to get your package into Debian,
  then of course you should follow their advice and policies...