---
Just refamiliarizing myself with git send-email. I haven't tested this
yet and it might not work.
 aptpkg | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)

diff --git a/aptpkg b/aptpkg
index dd82552..251359b 100755
--- a/aptpkg
+++ b/aptpkg
@@ -35,12 +35,44 @@ check(){
 	fi
 }
 
+# Generate the debian control file
+gen_control_file(){
+	mkdir -p "$1"/debian
+	echo "Package: $name
+Version: $version-$rev
+Architecture: amd64
+Maintainer: $(grep -am 1 -hr "Maintainer: " "$1"/build | sed 's/# Maintainer: //')
+Homepage: $url
+Description: $description
+" > "$builddir"/debian/control
+}
+
 # Download a debian package
 build_deb(){
 	echo "Getting $source"
 	wget "$source" -qO dist/"$name"_"$version"-"$rev"-amd64.deb
 }
 
+# Download and build using files
+build_file(){
+	builddir=${name}_${version}-${rev}_amd64
+
+	cd "$1"
+	mkdir -p "$builddir"
+
+	download # and verifying function
+	steps # adjust and move everything into $builddir correctly
+
+	gen_control_file "$@"
+
+	[ -f preinst ] && cp preinst "$builddir"/debian/
+	[ -f postinst ] && cp postinst "$builddir"/debian/
+
+	cd -
+
+	dpkg-deb --build "$1"/"$builddir" dist/
+}
+
 # Determine which function to run
 load_build(){
 	mkdir -p dist
@@ -51,6 +83,8 @@ load_build(){
 	case "$type" in
 		deb)
 			build_deb ;;
+		file)
+			build_file "$@" ;;
 	esac
 }
 
-- 
2.30.2