On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 03:44:40PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: > * Mike Hommey [2010-05-27 12:00 +0200]: > > There is one possible benefit: impossibility to create a native package > > when the .orig.tar.gz is missing, which happens much too often. > > Doesn't look like it's impossible: > > | dpkg-source: info: source format `3.0 (quilt)' discarded: no orig.tar file found > | dpkg-source: info: using source format `1.0' That's supposed to have been fixed. Mike