Comment by NCommander

Wow, this is horrible advice. I'm a Debian Developer and an Ubuntu Core Developer. What this will do is create a package that doesn't properly handle dependencies and be incredibly fragile.

Debian and Ubuntu automatically resolve shared library dependencies are build time through dpkg-shlibs and friends. Debian's maintainer manual is likely the most detailed guide: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/start.en.html

However, it's a bit hard to grok, so I'm going to point people at the guide that got linked in the comments before I got here: https://saveriomiroddi.github.io/Learn-to-prepare-PPA-packag...