As a Debian <i>user</i>, it&#x27;s a fine tutorial.  Not every .deb is built for distribution with Debian itself.  The only change I&#x27;d make is to clarify that what&#x27;s being built here is a &quot;for personal use only&quot; package.<p>As to the debian.org guides, I&#x27;ve always found them obtuse precisely because they emphasise what you&#x27;ve got to do to get a package distributed, rather than the plain technical details of how they work.