* 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' Carsten