On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 05:24:37PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 02:11:11PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > Unfortunately, none provide simple instructions for building on Debian. > > Is that what you want? > > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/
It occurs to me that you might simply want to build *other people's* packages from source on Debian. The way you normally do that is: apt-get -b source pkgname If you've already got the package source downloaded and extracted (e.g. via apt-get source pkgname) and you've modified it and now you want to build a package out of it, then you simply use: dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -rfakeroot inside the pkgname-version/ subdirectory. But reading the NMG is still not a bad idea.
