Desperate for deb docs

[Steven W. Orr]

On Tuesday, Oct 16th 2007 at 15:58 -0000, quoth Steven W. Orr:

=>I have looked. And I mean really looked. I need help.
=>
=>I need docs on how to build .deb files. I do not want docs on how to build 
=>.deb files for a debian distribution. I do not want docs on debian policy. 
=>I need to understand the intricasies of how to write control files (e.g., 
=>control, preinst, postinst, prerm, postrm, etc...)
=>
=>rpm doesn't have this kind of doc problem. It's very frustrating. :-(
=>
=>TIA

Thanks guys. The pointers you supplied got me to other pointers which 
eventually got me to 

http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html

I am now gleefully ecstatic.

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