Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???> writes:
> The time for repository upload is approaching...
>
> Since, I am only a humble amateur coder, I still have not figured out
> how to create a proper Debian source package. This means, I will have
> to create a tar.gz archive as follows:
>
> source-tarball.tar.gz
> |
> |-------cli-backend------------backend.c
> |
> |-------network-manager (lazarus project source files as created by Lazarus)
>
>
> However, I would like to learn to use the maintainer tools to avoid
> doing it manually. Ideally, dpkg-buildpackage should be able to build
> a .deb package out of the sources without any other intervention, but
> those are my current limits.

dh_make provides an easy way to create 'native' package, ie, one which
isn't 'upstream source tree' + 'Debian patches' + 'source package
description'.