Starting a Debian package from scratch

So far we assumed you already have a Debian package to start with but what if you want to start a new package? First create an empty repository:

mkdir package-0.1
cd package-0.1
git-init
    

Then you import the upstream sources, branch of the upstream branch and add the debian files (e.g. via dh_make):

git-import-orig -u 0.1 ../package-0.1.tar.gz
git-branch upstream
dh_make
    

That's it, you're done.