Debian packaging being complex, there are many documentations around it. Packaging practices also change, but it's difficult to know which documentation is up-t

Debian packaging being complex, there are many documentations around it. Packaging practices also change, but it's difficult to know which documentation is up-to-date or not. However, the very official documentation from the project is kept up-to-date: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ and https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/. But, yes, they are long and only cover the basics. There is also https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/packaging-tutorial/packaging-tutorial.en.pdf https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/packaging-tutorial/packag... which is kept up-to-date and is more in the tutorial style. Every few years, there are various attempts at simplifying packaging, usually in the form of a more universal helper to build a package skeleton, but it doesn't really reduce the complexity and until now, none of these helpers replaced debmake.