I prefer RPM packaging over all major styles of dsc (Debian Source Control) packaging as well, but... It's actually possible to use RPM spec files to build Deb

I prefer RPM packaging over all major styles of dsc (Debian Source Control) packaging as well, but... It's actually possible to use RPM spec files to build Debian packages: https://github.com/debbuild/debbuild https://github.com/debbuild/debbuild And I've been going through and slowly porting much of the RPM ecosystem common macros to run on debbuild so that spec files can be reused to comply with Debian packaging policies as much as possible: https://github.com/debbuild/debbuild-macros https://github.com/debbuild/debbuild-macros (Disclosure: I'm the current maintainer of debbuild)