I wrote a script similar to the script in scripts/package/builddeb in the kernel tree for git. Is there any interest to integrate it into the git source tree? I've attached the script.
#!/bin/sh tmpdir="`pwd`/debian/tmp"
make prefix=/usr all doc make prefix="$tmpdir/usr" install install-doc
version="`cat GIT-VERSION-FILE | cut -d ' ' -f 3`" name="git debian package script <`id -nu`@`hostname -f`>"
mkdir -p "$tmpdir/DEBIAN"
cat <<EOF > debian/control Source: git Section: devel Priority: optional Maintainer: $name Standards-Version: 3.6.1
Package: git Conflicts: git-arch, git-core, git-cvs, git-doc, git-email, git-svn, gitk Provides: git-arch, git-core, git-cvs, git-doc, git-email, git-svn, gitk Architecture: any Description: git, version $version This package contains git version $version. EOF
cat <<EOF > debian/changelog git ($version-1) unstable; urgency=low
* A standard release
-- $name `date -R` EOF
chmod -R og-w debian/tmp dpkg-gencontrol -isp fakeroot dpkg --build "$tmpdir" ..