CREDIT LINK :: https://askubuntu.com/questions/33413/how-to-create-a-meta-package-that-automatically-installs-other-packages
PERSON :: ajmitch
A meta-package like this can be created with a tool called equivs which will create a package with just dependency information.
First, create a directory:
mkdir my-metapackage
cd my-metapackage/
Now run the program:
equivs-control ns-control
It will create a file called ns-control, open this file with your text editor. The control file that you generate should have its Depends or Recommends lines modified to depend on the packages that you want installed:
Description: This package installes an ssh server and a text editor
The Long description of this package ends with a newline!
(Just an example, you should include more information)
And finally, build the package by running
equivs-build ns-control
Your package is located at my-metapackage/my-metapackage_1.0_all.deb.
If you wish to also create a source package, the --full option can be passed to equivs-build, e.g. equivs-build --full ns-control. This will use debuild & also create .dsc & .tar.gz files.
To create a source .changes file that you can upload to a PPA, extract & build the source package with
dpkg-source -x my-metapackage_1.0.dsc
cd my-metapackage-1.0
debuild -S
If the Maintainer that you set in ns-control matches your GPG key, it should build & sign the my-metapackage_1.0_source.changes file for you to dput to your PPA
