Well thanks to khertan i figured out why my packages werent repo friendly (or repo tolerant). Thanks to others for help also, especially genlist scripts.

Reason it wouldnt work though is that most of my packages dont need extra libs other than whats on firmware so i left blank. dpkg-scanpackages doesnt like this, so i set dependency to libc6 and that works... the repo accepts it.

So putting aside the 'best way to do things', would adding a depency to libc6 (no version just existence) keep the package compatible with bora as well as chinook? what about gregale? If not can anyone suggest the most basic library to depend on for each platform, just so that this field is not totally random?

Also i noticed that one of my packages installs fine but the package name is lowercase once installed. So i uninstall and reinstall from repo... same thing the package name is capitalized in repo but not once installed... this means its still listed in 'available applications' as well as installed applications. Is there some leftover data i could delete to rid of this of should i use lowercase for package names.

thx-