clean way to package 3rd party software

[Pau Oliva Fora]

Carsten Aulbert wrote:
> (2) Right now I then manually move all the changed files into a
> temporary directory, create a DEBIAN directory along with the necessary
> files (md5sum, control, ..) and call dpkg -b and go for a coffee.
> 
> However, especially this second step is rather tedious when it has to be
> done multiple times. Is there a better way of doing it?
> 

You might want to try 'checkinstall'. It's a script that automates this 
task for you and in most cases creates debian packages successfully.

Cheers,

	Pau