Debdry is for debian/ directories what debhelper7 is for debian/rules.

It applies the Don't Repeat Yourself idea to packaging, attempting to reuse as much as possible of upstream's metadata and standard packaging practices.

debdry runs an appropriate auto-debianisation tool for a given source directory, then applies manual overrides from a debian.in directory.

debdry supports the following types of packages (in brackets you will find extra packages that need to be installed for each type of package):

- Perl [dh-make-perl] - Python [python-stdeb, python3-stdeb] - Ruby [gem2deb] - Haskell [cabal-debian]