To prepare your environment for building .deb package install instruments:
`sudo apt-get install build-essential devscripts debhelper`
Important: to build .deb package archive name must be in the format $(name)\_$(version).orig.tar.gz
and directory within it must be named as $(name)\_$(version)
This build uses dh-virtualenv. For installation please follow the [tutorial] (http://dh-virtualenv.readthedocs.org/en/0.10/tutorial.html)
To build debian package from scratch:
1) make working directory (basically with any name) near archive bench_0.92.orig.tar.gz:
`mkdir build_dir`
2) copy debian directory in there:
`cp -r debian/ build_dir/`
3) change directory:
`cd build_dir/`
4) run package build:
`debuild -us -uc`
5) install resulting package:
`sudo dpkg -i ../bench_0.92_amd64.deb`
Please note that name of package contains your architecture so for 32-bit machines name will differ.
Current state: runs without problems on all Ubuntu versions installing bench in `/usr/share/python/bench/bin/bench`. Fails on Debian 8 with version format conflict.
Useful links:
[Introduction to Debian Packaging](https://wiki.debian.org/IntroDebianPackaging#Step_3:_Add_the_Debian_packaging_files)