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If on the other hand your goal is not to get a package in Debian, but only to quickly make a deb file, check out fpm: https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm.

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Yep, the tutorial name should be how to quickly (low quality) create a deb package from simple source. :)

Also you can use equivs for creating quick (dummy?) packages :D

The link to other resources and the expertise expressed in the head comment of this thread was helpful. The insults are not.

what insults?

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