control

This file is used by several programs such as dpkg to get informations about the program. The template is straightforward to complete.

A detailed documentation can be found here:

http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-dreq.en.html#s-control.

Figure 9: control file.

The powerful shlibs:Depends will detect, after the package has been built, shared libraries between dependencies and add these dependencies to this file.

When trying to install the package, dpkg while propose to resolve recursively all the dependencies.