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From this article I just learned how to build a debian package. In my case I built a package from the latest gnome/imendio planner source (0.14.1). After unpacking the tarball the following steps were necessary:

• Executing ./configure. If it fails, check if you have all the packages[1] installed.
  
  
• Executing dh_make:

  dh_make -n -s -e <email-address>

• Editing the control file debian/control
  
  
• Editing the rules file debian/rules

  # Add here commands to clean up after the build process.
  -$(MAKE) clean

  since in planner's Makefile there is no distclean target.
  
  
• Editing the rules file debian/rules

  # Add here commands to install the package into debian/planner.
  $(MAKE) install prefix=$(CURDIR)/debian/planner/usr/local

  since in planner's Makefile the install prefix is called prefix.
  
  
• Executing

  debian/rules clean
  debian/rules build
  debian/rules binary

  
  

[1] The following packages may be necessary:
dh-make libglade2-dev libgnomecanvas2-dev libgconf2-dev libgnomeprintui2.2-dev libgnomeui-dev libgnomevfs2-dev libxslt1-dev

[2] http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/337