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Simple program as example debian package

example-deb-package

Simple program as example debian package

Inspired by this blog post

Debian package naming

• package-name is the name of our package, hello-world in our case,
• version is the version of the software, 0.0.1 in our case,
• release-number is used to track different releases of the same software version; it’s usually set to 1, but hypothetically if there was an error in the packaging (e.g. a file was missed, or the description had an error in it, or a post-install script was wrong), this number would be increased to track the change, and
• architecture is the target architecture of the platform, amd64 in this example; however if your package is architecture-independent (e.g. a python script), then you can set this to all.

<package-name>_<version>-<release-number>_<architecture>