[debiandev]

DD here.

apt-get install maint-guide ...and then read:

file:///usr/share/developers-reference/index.html file:///usr/share/doc/maint-guide/html/index.en.html

Also look at existing packages and talk to DDs. Avoid random wikis.

I worked on many deployment systems and reading these guides made me a better engineer overall.

[gorgoiler]

Thanks!

The problem I saw from parent and other posts was that there’s two sets of information you need to build a package:

(1) the sources and debian patches, where the last public release of these is available from packages.debian.org

(2) knowing the right command to run to build the package.

In the old days you could guarantee everything would build via dpkg-buildpackage though you’d need to know to add -r fakeroot.

It sounded like nowadays it’s more complicated than that?

[j1elo]

The process itself seems to be very similar if not exactly the same.

The problem is not that, but the way to get there, and how the information is structured and presented, especially if you start from having no idea, or if you want to build your debian/ files from a blank slate and being able to read in a centralized resource about definitions of every line you add (which I think should be possible to do, for any system in general).