Debian Packaging Workshop: create .deb packages for any software

Setting up a Debian Unstable/Sid environment is a mandatory requirement to attend this packaging workshop. You can find instructions for this at https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging/Pre-Requisites. If you need help in setting this up, you can contact us. We will also offer help on Day 1.

We will cover Level 1 of https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging/Learn

A high level overview of packaging involves, 

1. Downloading source code of the software to be packaged (commonly release tarballs) 

2. Creating a debian directory template (using tools like debmake, npm2deb or gem2deb depending on the programming language used) 

3. Building the .deb file, combining the above two (using dpkg-buildpackage)

You will be doing the steps hands on during this session. You will know how to create .deb packages for simple software like a Node JS module.

Creating debian source packages using tools like debmake.

Building debian binary packages (.deb) for simple Node JS modules.

Making packages lintian clean.