Recently we’ve been experimenting around using TeamCity as a Debian repository and we’d like to share some tips and tricks we’ve come up with in the process. We used the TeamCity tcDebRepository plugin to build *.deb packages and serve package updates to Debian/Ubuntu servers. The plugin, the special prize winner of the 2016 TeamCity plugin contest, works like a charm, but we’ve encountered a few difficulties with the software used to build and package .deb files, hence this blog post. It’s important to note that tcDebRepository is not capable of serving packages to recent Ubuntu version