Basic things to know about the Debian source package

• Contains the source code (of course :-) )

• Has a Debian subdirectory

• In here we find several files, the most important are:

  • rules: used to do the actual building of the software
  • control: contains the description and dependency information
  • Changelog: Well this one is obvious
  • postinst, postrm, preinst, prerm,... : Little scripts to perform post installation or removal operations