making packages

[Eric Dunbar]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:50:59 +0200, Michel Clasquin <clasqm@> wrote:
> david wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I would like to make .deb packages out of source code but have
> > absolutely no idea where to start.
> > Can someone point me in the right direction please?
> 
> The quick and dirty way is to use checkinstall. You go through the usual
> ./configure and make routine, then instead of "make install" you use
> "checkinstall" and it makes a nice little deb file for you

Does this create a .deb with all the needed libraries, statically linked?

Eric.