How to handle original source tarball

[Dominik Smatana <dominik.smatana@gmail.com>]

Hello,

I'm trying to get my first packaging work done, but I'm not very
familiar with packaging process yet, so I'd like to ask some
questions, please:

I commited all debian/* files to SVN repository, but what about
original (new upstream release) source tarball?

Should I commit this orig tarball to SVN too?

I was investigating some of the existing packages in repository (e.g.
checkstyle) and found 'get-orig-source' section in rules. Is this
preferred way to handle original source?

Thanks for advice.

Dominik Smatana