openSUSE Build System: Building DEB Packages

“When creating deb packages with OBS it appears to be common
practice to keep the rules and control files separate and tar.gz
the other files from the Debian directory. You also need to have a
partial dsc file in order for OBS to build your package. The
Build-Depends line in your dsc file will direct OBS to install all
the deb files that a system needs in order to build your deb
package. The Files section of the dsc file is not used by OBS and
can be trimmed off to avoid having stale and misleading information
around.

“If you can use the same files for building on all Debian
distributions then you will have debian.control, debian.dsc,
debian.rules and debian.tar.gz attached to the project. If a
particular version of derivative of Debian requires different build
instructions, you can create distribution specific versions of
these files by including the distribution name and version as a
postfix in the filename. For example, instead of debian.dsc you
might have siproxd-xUbuntu_9.04.dsc and
siproxd-Debian_Etch.dsc.”

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