Deb2aci works like aptitude, but instead it downloads the deb packages with all their dependencies and installs them into the ACI image.
It remembers each dependency in annotation to the resulting image manifest.
# outputs nginx.aci
deb2aci -pkg nginx -manifest nginx.manifest -image nginx.aci
The image manifest will keep track of what packages are part of it:
[
{
"name":"debian.org/deb/lsb-base",
"value":"all/4.1+Debian11ubuntu8"
},
{
"name":"debian.org/deb/libjbig0",
"value":"amd64/2.1-3.1"
},
...
]