I hope someone can help me with this. I have asked the original writer to help but he has not so far replied.

I have a transcription applicaion installed on a Mint OS which is soon to be EOL. I am trying to replace this with Debian Bullseye, which will require less attention on my part during updates. The .deb installation archive comprises:

control.tar.xz
 control (file)
 md5sums (file)
 postinst (file)
 preinst (file)

data.tar.xz
 lib (folder)
 (contents)
 usr (folder)
 (contents)

Inside the control file is a list of dependencies that includes libreoffice-gtk2. Bullseye does not have this in the repo, using instead libreoffice-gtk3. I'm assuming that the calls to both are simlilar (am I correct?), although I do not in fact use libroffice with this application.

I have managed to change the library name in control but cannot rebuild the .deb. I have tried following a few online tutorials but cannot make them work and in any case none of them mention getting more than control into control.tar.xz

Can anyone help, please?