thank you for this document,i have use this to
create my first deb file

With newer versions of dh_make, you might need to specify the --createorig flag to dh_make if you do not provide the original source file.

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot does NOT need to be run as root

thank you for this document,i have use this to
create my first deb file : me too !

for me, I get a cannot find Glib2 error when running the dpkg-buildpackage command.

thanks :) BUT:
dpkg-buildpackage does indeed built the .deb packages, but they are almost empty. The data.tar.gz only contains the folder-structure "down to" the doc folder, but there is no data in the folder...

hey how can i "compile" the source in .deb files??

Thanks! You helped me to backport ghostscript from lenny to sarge today :).

Great guide. Helped me out too :)

Nice guide, thanks!

I am trying to package code from somebody else. ./configure && make works. But dh_make -s -e 'acsccid-1.0.1@FransVerster.nl' --createorig && dpkg-buildpackage fails :-(

It is building without some .c file so the linker fails.

Howto fix? Whats so different when using dpkg-buildpackage ?

Thx!