dpkg-buildpackage woes

[The Saltydog]

On 6/21/05, Leslie Viljoen <lesliev at icoc.co.za> wrote:
>  The maint guide says to use dh_make first, should I do that?
>  Do I run debuild instead of "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot"?

If you start from clean, yes you must use dh_make first, in order to
create the debian directory. Then modify the debian files and run
debuild -S -sa (assuming it is a new source version). If you just need
to package one application, you can then safely use debuild, but if
you are planning to work on more than one package, you are strongly
encouraged to use pbuilder. See this
page:https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PbuilderHowto