rebuilding packages

[John Smith <netman1@home.nl>]

Hi All,

	caused by various reasons (disagree with compiled in defaults, learning
stuff) I compiled a few packages from source from the project (apt-get source ...).
I found out that in some cases (notably snmpd and glibc) the rebuilding of the
source actually produces more .deb's than I expected: recompiling libc6 
got me :

-rw-r--r--  1 root src   2217916 2005-08-28 15:18 glibc-doc_2.3.2.ds1-22_all.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root src   4876000 2005-08-28 15:18 libc6_2.3.2.ds1-22_i386.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root src  10228256 2005-08-28 15:19 libc6-dbg_2.3.2.ds1-22_i386.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root src   2531324 2005-08-28 15:19 libc6-dev_2.3.2.ds1-22_i386.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root src    959710 2005-08-28 15:19 libc6-i686_2.3.2.ds1-22_i386.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root src   1036990 2005-08-28 15:19 libc6-pic_2.3.2.ds1-22_i386.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root src   2013058 2005-08-28 15:19 libc6-prof_2.3.2.ds1-22_i386.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root src    719330 2005-08-28 15:19 libc6-udeb_2.3.2.ds1-22_i386.udeb
-rw-r--r--  1 root src      7724 2005-08-28 15:19 libnss-dns-udeb_2.3.2.ds1-22_i386.udeb
-rw-r--r--  1 root src     13742 2005-08-28 15:19 libnss-files-udeb_2.3.2.ds1-22_i386.udeb
-rw-r--r--  1 root src   3984356 2005-08-28 15:18 locales_2.3.2.ds1-22_all.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root src     92698 2005-08-28 15:19 nscd_2.3.2.ds1-22_i386.deb

and rebuilding snmpd, libsnmp-base and libsnmp5 this:

-rw-r--r--  1 root src 1004816 Aug 29 08:47 libsnmp-base_5.1.2-6.1_all.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root src  808586 Aug 29 08:47 libsnmp-perl_5.1.2-6.1_i386.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root src 1100308 Aug 29 08:47 libsnmp5-dev_5.1.2-6.1_i386.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root src 1533566 Aug 29 08:47 libsnmp5_5.1.2-6.1_i386.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root src  811632 Aug 29 08:47 snmp_5.1.2-6.1_i386.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root src  730482 Aug 29 08:47 snmpd_5.1.2-6.1_i386.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root src  754554 Aug 29 08:47 tkmib_5.1.2-6.1_all.deb

What is behind this? Somebody care to enlighten me?

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,

Jan