Making a deb package

[Craig Bakalian]

Hi all,

I am teaching my son how to program in c++.  We created a project and 
implemented it that is a tangram puzzle.  It is actually very nice.  I 
am  the  programmer "back in the day" who created the first tangram 
puzzles on a iMac using objective-c and cocoa, about 20 years ago.

Anyway, we, my son and I, want to publish the thing on Ubuntu Software 
Centre.  I know I have to create a deb package, and I am not a 
technology idiot and yet I find the task daunting and obfuscated.  I am 
struggling with the logic.

Does the package have to contain source code, in our case it is a qt 
project?
Does a deb package actually build the code and install it on the users 
system?
Does the package have to contain a makefile?
Does the package have to contain a qmake file?
What is the relationship of bazaar and the deb package?

the example on the web page listed 
http://packaging.ubuntu.com/html/packaging-new-software.html has a 
config file.  Must there be a config file in the package?

Craig Bakalian