I don&#x27;t mean to stir up trouble so don&#x27;t take my comment offensively or anything - but every time I see debian packaging being talked about reminds me how thankful I should be to only have to deal with Arch packages.<p>The Debian packaging pipeline is really insanely complex. Arch packaging barely needs a tutorial at all. The best part about it is how all the packaging tools are shipped with the package manager. pacman can install remote packages as well as tarballs, and &quot;makepkg&quot; ships with pacman.<p>Scratch that actually - the best part about it is how development libraries ship alongside the packages. I <i>really</i> don&#x27;t miss having to install -dev packages <i>all the time</i>, especially having hundreds of them polluting all my queries.<p>When I tried creating packages for debian (this was quite a way back and it seems like things have improved, but not that much), I spent ages getting all the packages I needed in the first place and I had to keep track of far too many commands, had to constantly re-open the tutorials every time I wanted to create a new one. The PPA system is also far too cumbersome for one-off packages you want to distribute, compared to distributing just a PKGBUILD &#x2F; source package (especially since arch has the AUR).<p>I feel the debian world could really stand to take some lessons from Arch in that aspect.