Making debian binary packages

[Gaxus]

Is there a program out there that automates this process?

I'm thinking of something like slackware's 'makepkg': all you do is run it in the package's root directory and it will automatically create a resulting .tgz file.

[GaryJones32]

yea there are some though what you said "all you do is"
doesn't actually apply to any of it i don't think

debstd
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/programmer/ch-tools.html

and a thing you can get from cvs called "debhelper"
described some here
http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/

a script called "yada"
http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~vdanjean/deb.html

[Gaxus]

Thanks for the links....

blah.

I think I'll just stick to this How-to then...
http://www.kclee.com/clemens/unix/HowToCreateYourOwnDebianPackage.html

...guess that's as lazy as I can get for the moment. :D