[ale] creating a debian package

[Chris Fowler]

On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 20:14 -0500, Jim Lynch wrote:

> Checkinstall does a great job of that.  I've used it extensively.
> 
> http://www.asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/
> 
> That assumes that there is a single command like "make install" that 
> will do the install.

That seemed too easy.

Does it use ldd to see what libraries are linked and track down the
dependencies?  When I do an install on the laptop maybe it will download
libxmlrpc-c3 ?