Off-topic: Issues with building Ubuntu packages

[silver.bullet at zoho.com]

On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 09:39:13 -0500, William Scott Lockwood III wrote:
>Have you looked at FPM? It can build all kinds of packages for you
>very easily. Takes all of the pain and drudgery out of the process.
>Check out: https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm

Thank you William,

no I haven't looked at it.

'"deb" - make a package from an existing deb'
( https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/wiki ) sounds promising, since I
like to know how to automatically split the source from upstream into
the packages, following the Debian/Ubuntu policies.

Later today I likely will give it a go.

Building fpm comes with a chicken egg causality dilemma :D.

The request is sent to the devel discussion list too. It already
came through the list, but isn't in the archive yet.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2015-August/date.html

Regards,
Ralf