how to make a *.deb package from source

[Tez]

Larry Hartman wrote:
> 1.  Oops, apologies, not intentional.
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No problem, we all make mistakes :-)
> 2.  Thanx.  I guessed there was a fairly simple way of doing this, but what I 
> could find in the forums only discussed it in conjunction of adding projects 
> to online repositories, etc--all I wanted was something for myself.
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Like I said, there are quite a few ways, the way I said is good if you 
want a deb package that you are going to install anyway. But there are 
other ways too, each more complex than the last :-P but useful in their 
own ways
> Larry
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Tez