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Debuild vs Preon

A side-by-side look at Debuild and Preon. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Debuild

Debuild

Development

Debuild is a tool that assists in building Debian binary packages. It automates several steps in the packaging process like running debian/rules build to build the package, creating the .deb file, and signing it.

debianpackagingautomation
Preon

Preon

Development

Preon is an object serializer that generates compact binary data formats. It aims to be an alternative to protocols like JSON and XML that focus on text-based serialization.

binaryserializationobject

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