.deb distribution/setup/maintenance

[Tim Heath]

I have heard that automake now has the ability to create debian
packages.  My question is how can this .deb be used with
dselect/apt-get?  How do you set that up for automatic upgrading in
potato, woody, and sid?  How can you put your .deb on a server somewhere
and then tell apt-get and dselect it is there and broadcast that to the
opensource community at large that they can get access to automatic
updates from that server?  I love debian linux and dselect/apt-get has
been ported to cygwin if I am not mistaken.  I am eager to use it in an
intelligent way.

Thanks,

Tim Heath