question about dpkg-source : why does it create a copy of the orig.tar.gz file ?

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Subject: question about dpkg-source : why does it create a copy of the orig.tar.gz file ?
From: Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 19:39:24 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 19970628193924.05575@dungeon.inka.de>

dpkg-source -x /some/path/to/file_version-rev.dsc

creates not only file_version/, but also file_version.orig.tar.gz.
why ?

regards, andreas


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