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I'm wondering what people are using to _build_ custom deb packages. We currently have a set of simple shell scripts which first install the dependencies, then compile some source code and finally use checkinstall to build a Debian package from that. It works, but I'd much rather have a config file with all the required steps instead of a buggy shell script. Is there any better way?

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fpm - https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/wiki

Looks good! Additionally, there's fpm-cookery, which comes pretty close to what I want: https://github.com/bernd/fpm-cookery Somebody also created a Docker container for that: https://github.com/andytinycat/fpm-dockery

Now combining this tool with Jenkins, which triggers a build whenever I change the recipe would be all I need for now.

Any particular reason why there is no debian packaging for it? Debhelper makes it so trivial to package things these days.

Debhelper felt a bit too "low-level" when I first tried it. After learning a lot about Debian packages it might be a good choice now. Maybe I'll have another look. Thanks!

Check out the "not your grandpa's debhelper" presentation. (http://penta.debconf.org/dc9_schedule/events/418.en.html) The official documentation seems to disregard a lot of the recent (as in, from the last 8 years) improvements.

These days I barely need anything more than /usr/share/doc/debhelper/examples/rules.tiny

I use CMake/CPacl

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