Re: Multiple orig archives, unpacking to a sub-subdirectory

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Fri, 2025-09-12 at 11:00:42 +0900, Simon Richter wrote:
> I have a source package where additional tarballs need to be
> extracted to a sub-subdirectory.
> 
> Should this be supported by dpkg, i.e. does it make sense for me to
> think about this and propose a patch (even though I will need to
> wait six years or so to use it), or is this a waste of time and I
> should just repack everything?

At least from what you are describing this should already be supported
as part of «3.0 (quilt)» with its multi upstream tarball support,
known in some places as MUT, or now as addon original tarballs. See
the dpkg-source(1) man page for .orig-<addon>.tar.<ext> (or previously
.orig-<component>.tar.<ext>), where each addon orig.tar is extracted
into <addon>/.

But perhaps you are thinking about something else?

Regards,
Guillem