Maybe I'll file this later, but consider this a bug report. On my Macintosh, the qt_simple and simple templates seem to work fine, but the following fails: mad pscreate -t lib_simple lsimple cd lsimple mad qmake mad make [successfully created liblsimple.so.1.0.0 inside the build directory] mad dpkg-buildpackage It creates the source/binary package, but it gives the following error when trying to create the debian package: make[1]: *** No rule to make target `liblsimple.so.1.0.0', needed by `install'. Stop. Also, there is no qt_lib_simple template in the environment I downloaded.