git-buildpackage software package provides Suite to help with Debian packages in Git repositories, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install git-buildpackage
git-buildpackage is installed in your system.
Make ensure the git-buildpackage package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep git-buildpackage *
You will get with git-buildpackage package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Development |
| Package | git-buildpackage |
| Version | 0.7.2 |
| Description | Suite to help with Debian packages in Git repositories |
| Sub Section | Devel |