1. Introduction
The intended use of such a newly created
archive is to install it only on your own box, not to get them into the official
Debian distribution. To follow the 'official' process, please study
the Debian New Maintainers' Guide.
Normal Debian packages get a proper source package,
including a debian/rules file which
automates the steps involved in creating the binary package.
Here we just show how to package a simple shell script or binary executable
into a small binary package.
BTW, I assume you know how to use 'tar', 'man', and what a '.tar.gz' file and
Debian is (and how
to use an editor ;-), but I
assume you have never touched programs like 'ar' or 'dpkg'.