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	jeremiah	2009-03-17 , 23:01
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Originally Posted by fatalsaint

Thats just it.... dpkg-buildpackage is for source packages...

he's not building from a source .... No automake, no configure, no make. Just Binaries.

A deb package is a binary. dpkg-buildpackage builds these binary packages which have as their suffix ".deb". You can use, and should in fact use, dpkg-buildpackage to create debs.

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