DPKG::Make is a Perl module for cleanly generate an Debian package (.dpkg).

SYNOPSIS

use DPKG::Make;

# The "Manifest": list of files that will comprise the software package.
my @filelist=(tmproot/file1.txt,
tmproot/file2.txt,
tmproot/file3.txt,
tmproot/file4.txt);

my %doc; my %conf; my %metadata;

# Define special handling of files.
$doc{tmproot/file1.txt}=1;
$conf{tmproot/file2.txt}=1;

# Bare minimum metadata (descriptive data of the software package).
my $pathprefix=tmproot;
my $tag=test; # cannot use uppercase characters
my $version=0.1;
my $release=1;

# Highly descriptive metadata.
%metadata=(
vendor=>Excellence in Perl Laboratory,
summary=>a Test Software Package,
name=>$tag,
copyrightname=>...,
group=>base,
AutoReqProv=>no,
requires=>[()],
email=>joe@somewhere.com,
description=>This package is generated by DPKG::Make. .
This implements the .$tag. software package,
pre=>echo "You are installing a package built by DPKG::Make; .
DPKG::Make is available at http://www.cpan.org/.",
);

# Temporary "sandbox" (this should not be /tmp because this is deleted!).
my $buildloc=TempBuildLoc;

# The "execute" subroutine coordinates all of the DPKG building steps.
DPKG::Make::execute($tag,$version,$release,$arch,$buildloc,$pathprefix,
@filelist,%doc,%conf,
%metadata);

# You can also build a DPKG in more atomic steps; these three smaller
# steps are equivalent to the execute command.

# Step 1: Generate the rpm source location.
DPKG::Make::dpkgsrc($tag,$version,$release,$arch,$buildloc,$pathprefix,
@filelist,%doc,%conf,
%metadata);

# Step 2: Build the rpm and copy into the invoking directory.
DPKG::Make::compiledpkg($buildloc,$metadata{name},$version,
$release,$arch,
$currentdir,$invokingdir);

# Step 3: clean the location used to gather and build the rpm.
DPKG::Make::cleanbuildloc($buildloc);