Check README.md for further details. It seems to be working fine for both ubuntu and termux (android 7) as per my tests. Let me know if there are any issues. I'll wait a while for feedback before bumping version and merging. A single commit was done since pretty much everything has been replaced or deleted from previous versions and this is more like an initial commit.

Release workflow and manual install instructions do need to be tested. Looks fine, final tests would need to be done after merging anyways.

Added

• Add support for YAML format for manifests.
• Add support for custom permissions and ownership of data files.
• Add support to automatically set permissions and ownership to control tar files.
• Add support to automatically add Installed-Size field to control file.
• Add support to automatically generate md5sums file.
• Add support to automatically add other controls files config, conffiles, templates, shlibs to control tar.
• Add support to add custom control file fields.
• Add support for control and data tar compression type and format.
• Add support for --control-files-dir, --deb-dir, --deb-name, --files-dir, --pkg-arch, --pkg-version and --yaml comamnd line options.
• Add support of installation_prefix, files_dir, tar_compression, tar_format, deb_dir, deb_name, deb_architecture_tag, control_files_dir, maintainer_scripts_shebang, conffiles_prefix_to_replace, fix_perms, allow_bad_user_names_and_ids, ignore_android_specific_rules create info fields in manifest.
• Add support of source, perm, fix_perm, source_ownership, owner_uid, owner_uname, owner_gid, owner_gname, is_conffile attribute fields for data_files dictionary in manifest.
• Add support of ignore, ignore_if_no_exist, source_readlink, source_recurse, set_parent_perm, symlink_destinations, set_shebang action fields for data_files dictionary in manifest.
• Add support to automatically add termux-create-package script and sha256sums.txt to releases.

Changed

• The manifest format has been completely changed, but backward compatibility still maintained. Check README.md for details. The files dictionary has been replaced with data_files. The control file fields are to be added to the control dictionary.
• Extended manifest validation so that debs comply with debian and dpkg rules.
• The manifest Depends, Provides, Conflicts and other package relationship fields should be of type string now instead of a list.
• The manifest Description and other multi-line field values should be of type list now instead of a string.
• The --prefix must now be an absolute path.

Install instructions

You can run following commands to install the updated script.

Termux

pkg install python && \
pip install ruamel.yaml && \
pkg install curl && \
export install_path="/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin" && \
mkdir -p "$install_path" && \
curl -L 'https://github.com/agnostic-apollo/termux-create-package/raw/rewrite/src/termux-create-package' -o "$install_path/termux-create-package" && \
export owner="$(stat -c "%u" "$install_path")"; chown "$owner:$owner" "$install_path/termux-create-package" && \
chmod 700 "$install_path/termux-create-package";

Linux Distros

sudo apt install python3 python3-pip  && \
sudo pip3 install ruamel.yaml && \
sudo apt install curl && \
export install_path="/usr/local/bin" && \
sudo mkdir -p "$install_path" && \
sudo curl -L 'https://github.com/agnostic-apollo/termux-create-package/raw/rewrite/src/termux-create-package' -o "$install_path/termux-create-package" && \
sudo chmod 755 "$install_path/termux-create-package";