This library provides an Ant task and a Maven plugin to create Debian packages from Java builds in a truly cross platform manner. Build your Debian packages on any platform that has Java support. Windows, Linux, OS X - it doesn't require additional native tools installed. The API underneath is well abstracted and can easily be adopted for other areas as well.
Check the documentation on how to use it with Maven or Ant. Especially don't forget to check out the examples. Current javadocs and a source xref is also available.
The jars are available in the Maven central repository. The source releases you can get in the download section.
If feel adventures or want to help out feel free to get the latest code via git.
git clone git://github.com/tcurdt/jdeb.git
Some links to other cross platform tools to package Linux applications: