Quickly generate a deb

quickdeb.sh

#!/bin/bash

# set -e

PROGRAMNAME=test
VERSION=0.1
ARCH=amd64
OUTPUT_FILENAME="${PROGRAMNAME}_${VERSION}_${ARCH}.deb"

echo "creating deb for '${PROGRAMNAME}'; output '${OUTPUT_FILENAME}'"

mkdir -v -p debian/DEBIAN
mkdir -v -p debian/usr/bin

DESKTOPFILESDIR="debian/usr/share/applications"
chmod 644 "${DESKTOPFILESDIR}/${PROGRAMNAME}.desktop"

DOCSDIR="debian/usr/share/doc/${PROGRAMNAME}"

ICONDIR="debian/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps"
ICONPATH="${ICONDIR}/${PROGRAMNAME}.svg"
chmod 644 "${ICONPATH}"

find debian -type d | xargs chmod 755

# mv -v "${PROGRAMNAME}/${PROGRAMNAME}" debian/usr/bin/
chmod 755 debian/usr/bin/*

cat "License to be determined" > "${DOCSDIR}/copyright"
find "${DOCSDIR}" -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} \;

mkdir -p debian/usr/share/doc/${PROGRAMNAME}/

find debian/usr -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \;

echo "" | gzip -9 - -c -f > debian/usr/share/doc/${PROGRAMNAME}/changelog.gz
chmod 0644 debian/usr/share/doc/${PROGRAMNAME}/changelog.gz

# round((size in bytes)/1024)
INSTALLED_SIZE=$(du -s debian/usr | awk '{x=$1/1024; i=int(x); if ((x-i)*10 >= 5) {f=1} else {f=0}; print i+f}')
echo "size=${INSTALLED_SIZE}"

echo "Package: ${PROGRAMNAME}
Version: ${VERSION}
Priority: optional
Architecture: ${ARCH}
Depends: bash (>=4.0)
Installed-Size: ${INSTALLED_SIZE}
Maintainer: No Name <[email protected]>
Description: asdasd asd asd sad asd asd 
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 asd sad ." > debian/DEBIAN/control

fakeroot dpkg-deb --build debian
mv -v debian.deb "${OUTPUT_FILENAME}"
find debian/
lintian "${OUTPUT_FILENAME}"