Quick intro into building meta packages cp -a /usr/share/doc/cdd-dev/examples/tasks . cat tasks/README edit tasks/task1 Task: Biology Description: short description long description as in any debian/control file Depends: dependency1, dependency2, ... Suggests: suggests1, suggests2, ... (optional) cp tasks/task1 tasks/ For each meta package this skeleton of a debian/control entry is needed see /usr/share/doc/cdd-dev/examples/tasks