The Debian packaging for Samba 4 is maintained in the SVN repository of the Debian Samba packaging team. (parts of this file are from their README.building) To build: : Check out the official Debian packaging: svn co svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-samba/branches/samba4 samba4/debian : Samba is not a native Debian package, so you will need to create : an .orig.tar.gz tarball. Do something along the lines of: VER=$( dpkg-parsechangelog -lsamba4/debian/changelog | sed -n 's/^Version: \(.*:\|\)//p' | sed 's/-[0-9.]\+$//' ) svn export samba4 samba-$VER ( cd samba-$VER/source && ./autogen.sh ) ( cd samba-$VER/source && ./script/mkversion.sh VERSION include/version.h ../../samba4/source/ ) tar zcf samba_$VER.orig.tar.gz samba-$VER : With the .orig.tar.gz in place, you can now also export the debian/ : directory: svn export samba4/debian samba-$VER/debian : Finally, build the package using whatever method you prefer: cd samba-$VER debuild