We have found 2 software records in our database eligible for .zip to .deb file format conversion.
Although you can repack ZIP archives to DEB archives using several file archiving utilities the resulting DEB file won't be valid Debian package for app installing, unless the ZIP file contained files in the exact proper structure for Debian.
Of course, you may also encounter situations where a Debian archive is further compressed using ZIP. If that is the case you only need to decompress the ZIP to get your .deb archive, no zip to deb conversion in this case is required.
ZIP
Files with zip is associated with the WinZip compression tool. ZIP file is compressed archive container that contains archived files, compressed in ZIP compression format. Common archive format that can be extracted with any archiving tool.
DEB
Files with deb extension can be mainly found as Debian distribution packages - compressed archives for Debian Linux operating system. Some archiving utilities, such as 7-zip, are also able to extract the content of DEB packages.