For the past year or so we've made an effort here at Made by Many to start embracing more tried and tested approaches to releasing software. After having a long debate around what toolchain we'd like to use, Debian packaging was suggested as a possible unit of deployment. It's a platform that’s been used for ages, is well tested, and Ubuntu, our operating system of choice, uses it by default.When we took a deeper look into what a .deb file actually does when installed and found it had some properties that we really liked. It: