This is my biggest gripe with debian packaging. Also, the use of make files and the magic that goes on behind the scenes with debhelper (which you probably want

This is my biggest gripe with debian packaging. Also, the use of make files and the magic that goes on behind the scenes with debhelper (which you probably want to use) makes packaging much less transparent. It took me days to grok how to make a proper debian package nearly a decade ago when I first did it - writing my first .spec file took an hour or so and now I can hammer most of them out in 15 minutes or less.