Back in the day, I created my packages manually (creating the TAR archives, the preinstall/postinstall scripts, and putting all of that in an AR archive, renami

Back in the day, I created my packages manually (creating the TAR archives, the preinstall/postinstall scripts, and putting all of that in an AR archive, renaming it to .deb). I never even read the documentation, I just did: $ file some.deb $ ar --output somedir some.deb $ ls somedir Definitely not the recommended way, but I never spent more than 10min on a Debian package (installed with dpkg and not through repositories).