question about dpkg-source : why does it create a copy of the orig.tar.gz file ?

[Andreas Jellinghaus]

dpkg-source -x /some/path/to/file_version-rev.dsc

creates not only file_version/, but also file_version.orig.tar.gz.
why ?

regards, andreas


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