new 'create deb packages tutorial' video

a tutorial video about how to create deb packages from our latest user group meetup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLubdvMzmZs&t=1207s

Enjoy!

Good work. Helps a lot.
Although ... If “It's easy”, then anything is easy. 1h11 speak volumes (virtually) and “You see, there is no leading slash. Don't ask me why” yet another.

The procedure is still cumbersome and has always been. In my experience, you can create all deb packages that you want, but to do it right asks for precision in many respects. I knew to do it, but it is not easy and there are many pitfalls to avoid.

A good educational video which I add to my references, in case I ever have to build deb-packages again.

my explanation for the slash is:
there is no slash because you are in the $DESTDIR, and you copy relative to this.
if the file name would start with / it would be an absolute path.
so
/usr/include/foo.h would want to go to the file system, bad.

usr/include/foo.h goes to wherever the package manager is (pkgdir in Slackware speak) and copy it relative to there.

Originally Posted by a4z my explanation for the slash is: there is no slash because you are in the $DESTDIR, and you copy relative to this. if the file name would start with / it would be an absolute path. so /usr/include/foo.h would want to go to the file system, bad. usr/include/foo.h goes to wherever the package manager is (pkgdir in Slackware speak) and copy it relative to there.

It is not so much the little detail about the slash, but the number of times that, also in the video, these details are of importance. Maybe you would not count them as “difficulty” and I should rather list them under “a huge bunch of things to consider”.