simple debian package creation (src: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/195633/good-approaches-for-packaging-php-web-applications-for-debian )

control

Package: tmp
Version: 0.1
Maintainer: Huy Morzhoviy <[email protected]>
Architecture: all
Depends: 
Description: Source simple package

create_package.sh

#!/bin/bash

# create a clean debian package directory
rm -rf debian
mkdir -p debian/DEBIAN
mkdir -p debian/root

# populate the debian directory
cp control    debian/DEBIAN

# Copy your web-app file anywhere you want
date > debian/root/1.tmp

# finish through fakeroot so we can adjust ownerships without needing to be root    
fakeroot ./finish_package.sh debian .

finish_package.sh

#!/bin/bash

# $1 is the debian directory, $2 is the output directory

# adjust ownerships
chown -R root:root $1

# finally build the package
dpkg-deb --build $1 $2