> I was wondering whether there is a group of people out there that just go > around debianizing programs.
There's about 400 of us. We call ourselves Debian developers. > What goes into the making of .deb packages? Install and read 'developers-reference'. You might also want to install and read 'debian-policy' and install 'dpkg-dev'. The latter contains everything you'll need to build packages. While only developers can put packages into the Debian archive anyone can build and distribute packages. > And are there ramifications for makeing .debs out off commercial > packages... None that wouldn't apply to any method of packaging. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI