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@@ -94,6 +94,12 @@ buster.)
a manually maintained changelog that contains proper Debian release
versioning.
+ Furthermore, official Debian packages are built in ``3.0 (quilt)`` format
+ with an "orig" tarball and a "debian" tarball. These tarballs are created
+ by the ``tarsource.sh`` tool on any branch. The git repository however
+ contains a ``3.0 (git)`` source format specifier to easily allow direct
+ git builds.
+
.. _multi-dist:
@@ -102,6 +108,7 @@ Multi-Distribution builds
You can optionally append a distribution identifier in case you want to
make multiple versions of the package available in the same repository.
+Do the following after creating the changelog with `tarsource.sh`:
.. code-block:: shell