The first task is to set up the information required for the Debian packaging system. Extract the distribution:

$ tar zxvf wajig-0.1.1.tar.gz

to create the wajig-0.1.1 subdirectory. Change into this directory and then run dh_make to set things up for Debian:

$ cd wajig-0.1.1 $ dh_make -e kayon@togaware.com -f ../wajig-0.1.1.tar.gz

You will be asked what kind of package to create and since wajig is a single binary package we choose s.

This has now created a debian subdirectory and copy of the original distribution in ../wajig-0.1.1.orig.

Now edit the files in the debian subdirectory to tell Debian the appropriate information about the package.