Instructions for creating .debs from cvs cd ~/cvs/gnue/designer/ python setup.py dist mkdir ~/gnue-debs mkdir ~/gnue-debs/designer mv dist/GNUe-Designer-0.4.0.tar.gz ~/gnue-debs/designer/gnue-designer-0.4.0.orig.tar.gz cd ~/gnue-debs/designer tar -zxvf gnue-designer-0.4.0.orig.tar.gz mv GNUe-Designer-0.4.0 gnue-designer-0.4.0 cd gnue-designer-0.4.0 mkdir debian cp ~/cvs/gnue/designer/packaging/debian/* . cp debian/setup.cfg.debian setup.cfg.in dpkg-buildpackage .. or at least that's what I remember doing :)