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="$USER\\<[email protected]$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
Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

Output

*****************************************
**** Debian package creation selected ***
*****************************************

This package will be built according to these values:

0 -  Maintainer: [ elopez<[email protected]> ]
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: [  ]
Code language: CSS (css)

Refer: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18365600/how-to-manage-multiple-package-dependencies-with-checkinstall