Comment 39 for bug 206365

FriedChicken : If you want to try the adventure, I can say you that it's not so complicate and that if you make some mistakes, it will be easy to fix them. You can learn about packaging here :

https://help.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/packagingguide/C/

4 indispensable commands :

Get source package :
apt-get source gnucash

Build new source package once files in debian folder were updated and once you added a new version number in debian/changelog :
dpkg-buildpackage -S -sa -rfakeroot

Create a pbuilder environment to build binary packages (needed only once) :
sudo pbuilder create --distribution hardy --othermirror "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy universe multiverse"

Build a binary package from a source package :
sudo pbuilder --build ../<filename>.dsc

At anytime if you have questions about this, don't hesitate to email me at <email address hidden> . From now on, I think that we need your work to be properly packaged and tested before we can upload it. Thanks for your hard work!