Zach Garner wrote: > It generally works, but there is a lot of magic that happens in the > dh_ scripts. For instance, I don't know how it knows that > debian/<packagename> is where my application data is supposed to be. > Is this hardcoded in dpkg-deb?
dpkg-deb can take any directory and turn it into a binary package. (On dpkg-deb(1), note the "directory" option to 'dpkg-deb -b'.) By convention, the debhelper scripts install into debian/<packagename>, and dh_builddeb calls dpkg-deb with that directory as an argument.
