How to manage multiple package dependencies with checkinstall?

After reading Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-A.'s answer, Reallumpi's one and doing some tests on a real life case, here is what you should do:

1. use , (comma) without spaces to separate required packages ;
2. escape ( and ) parenthesis when specifying package's version ;
3. escape > (greater sign) when specifying package's version ;

Example

make && sudo -k checkinstall \    --pkgsource="https://github.com/raboof/nethogs/" \    --pkglicense="GPL2" \    --deldesc=no \    --nodoc \    --maintainer="$USER\\<$USER@$HOSTNAME\\>" \    --pkgarch=$(dpkg \    --print-architecture) \    --pkgversion="0.8.1" \    --pkgrelease="SNAPSHOT" \    --pkgname=nethogs \    --requires="libc6 \(\>= 2.4\),libgcc1 \(\>= 1:4.1.1\),libncurses5 \(\>= 5.5-5~\),libpcap0.8 \(\>= 0.9.8\),libstdc++6 \(\>= 4.1.1\),libtinfo5" \    make install

Output

********************************************* Debian package creation selected ********************************************This package will be built according to these values:0 -  Maintainer: [ elopez<elopez@> ]1 -  Summary: [ Net top tool grouping bandwidth per process ]2 -  Name:    [ nethogs ]3 -  Version: [ 0.8.1 ]4 -  Release: [ SNAPSHOT ]5 -  License: [ GPL2 ]6 -  Group:   [ checkinstall ]7 -  Architecture: [ amd64 ]8 -  Source location: [ https://github.com/raboof/nethogs/ ]9 -  Alternate source location: [  ]10 - Requires: [ libc6 (>= 2.4),libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1),libncurses5 (>= 5.5-5~),libpcap0.8 (>= 0.9.8),libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1),libtinfo5 ]11 - Provides: [ nethogs ]12 - Conflicts: [  ]13 - Replaces: [  ]

checkinstall uses , to separate multiple packages. That's it, a comma, without any spaces around it.

You need to escape brackets, e.g. --requires "package \(= 1.0\)"