A practical, step-by-step guide to building a .deb package from source, using
the python-gitlint-core package in this repository as
a concrete, working example.
This guide is written to be useful both as a tutorial (read it top to bottom the first time) and as a reference (jump to the section you need). It is heavily cross-referenced with the official Debian documentation, wikis and policy manuals so you can dig deeper on any topic.