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15 Source packages (from old Packaging Manual)
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The Debian binary packages in the distribution are generated from Debian
sources, which are in a special format to assist the easy and automatic
building of binaries.

Tools for processing source packages

The Debian package source tree

Source packages as archives

Unpacking a Debian source package without dpkg-source