Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> writes: > The only times repacking the orig tarball is required are: > > […] > - it isn't available in a format supported by dpkg (with the extreme case > of this being that there is no orig tarball at all, only a VCS repository)
A case more extreme: the work is not distributed upstream as tarball nor as VCS. It is available upstream only as disparate files, not from any single URL. (For a simple example of that, see the ‘lojban-common’ package.) -- \ “I don't accept the currently fashionable assertion that any | `\ view is automatically as worthy of respect as any equal and | _o__) opposite view.” —Douglas Adams | Ben Finney
