Re-creating Debian binary packages with dpkg-repack
If you've installed a Debian package upon a machine, but lost the binary archive, then it is difficult to copy that package to another machine. Thankfully is a simple solution for recreating a Debian package from an installed system.
Several months ago I wrote a small patch to the crawl game which would allow nefarious users to cheat. Once I built the package and tested it I deleted the source code in a tidying mood.
Unfortunately once I'd deleted my patch, and the package source code, I acquired another computer suitable for playing games upon - but without the sources I didn't have the option of installing the Debian binary package upon this new machine.
Thankfully there is a simple solution to this problem: dpkg-repack.
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