Generates a list of installed packages that are required to go in the "Depends" section of a debian package for a single binary.

gendepends.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Pass this program the relative or full path to a binary to parse with `ldd`

PROGRAM=$1

LDD_FILES=$(ldd "$1" | awk '{print $3}' | sed '/^$/d' | egrep -v "^\(0x.*\)")

for FILE in $LDD_FILES
do
    dpkg -S $FILE | awk '{print $1}' | tr -d ':'
    echo
done | tr '\n' ',' | sed 's/,,/, /g' | sed 's/..$//g'