What to do if there's already a debian-dir inside the .orig.tar?

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Subject: What to do if there's already a debian-dir inside the .orig.tar?
From: Björn Esser <bjoern.esser@googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:01:30 +0100
Message-id: <[🔎] 4EBA5D8A.3040504@googlemail.com>

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Hello!

What shall I do, when there's already a debian-dir inside the .orig.tar,
e.g. when upstream already package his/her program for ubuntu?

Can I safely remove the existing debian-dir from the .orig.tar?
What else can I do?

BR,

Björn
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