I store files in an appropiate strcture in my repo in a "src" folder, eg "src/usr/bin/myprog", "src/etc/cron.daily/myprog.cron" etc Then I have a "src/DEBIAN"

I store files in an appropiate strcture in my repo in a "src" folder, eg "src/usr/bin/myprog", "src/etc/cron.daily/myprog.cron" etc Then I have a "src/DEBIAN" folder with a control file and maybe things like conffiles, postinst, etc. Control file looks like Package: mypackage Version: 1.0.__datestamp__ Architecture: all Maintainer: My Name <my.name@email.com> Depends: perl, libcgi-pm-perl, libtimedate-perl, apache2 Section: web Priority: optional Installed-Size: 1000 Description: My fun package which does good stuff Do wonderful things like existing sed replaces the __datestamp__ line with yyyy.mm.dd.hh.mm.ss, then fakeroot dpkg-deb --build ./src builds a deb. (I have a larger script which does things like checking out from git, tagging, etc)