help on ubuntu packaging

[travis+ml-ubuntu-devel-discuss at subspacefield.org]

Hey all,

I'm packaging up some stuff, and finding that the process is, well,
confusing.

I've got something that works with older debhelper stuff (prior to the
rules file being made into one target/command), and not sure how to
port what I was doing in rules to the new format.  Specifically, I
want to make some files (a log file) owned by someone other than root.

More generally, I seem to find a lot of weird things with packaging
and wanted to ask questions somewhere.  I get a fair number of lintian
warnings.
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