Emmanuel Bourg

The mangling is clearly wrong in this case, the end of the `+g1b4b40e` suffix was parsed as a beta version and a `~` was inserted before the last `b`. I'm...

For this level of customization I would recommend using the Ant task combined with the maven-antrun-plugin.

+1 for Java 7

Hi, In this case the .gz files weren't generated by jdeb, so unless jdeb reimplements [strip-nondeterminism](https://packages.debian.org/sid/strip-nondeterminism) there isn't much we can do.

Supporting the [SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH ](https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/) environment variable would be good too.

jdeb has few dependencies, I don't think this will make a significant difference.

Hi Jacek, did you consider using the jdeb Ant task with Gradle? It should integrate nicely. http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/ant.html

The control file as used by jdeb is more like the control file of a binary package, it doesn't support multiple paragraphs as used in the control file of a...

It's documented [here](https://github.com/tcurdt/jdeb/blob/master/docs/maven.md) with an example. How would you improve the documentation to make this clearer?

For your migration to Maven, you can consider using the maven-antrun-plugin to build several .deb from the same module.