> We already do, when you run dpkg-source --build, it makes a .orig.tar.gz > file, a .diff.gz file, and a .dsc file.
Actually (though I admit hello-source.deb is a cool hack, it's still a hack -- and debian has mostly gained it's superiority from getting the *details* right; that's *why* dpkg is better than rpm...) short term would would probably help the most for those of us doing "piggy-back" packages, is a way for dpkg-source to handle *multiple* trees in one package... ie. if I build prc-tools, I'd have prc-tools.orig.tar.gz, prc-tools.diff.gz, gcc.orig.tar.gz, gcc.diff.gz, and a single prc-tools.dsc. I can then save *hours* on the upload by manually verifying that the md5sum of my gcc.orig.tar.gz matches the one on master, and then uploading the rest (ie. stuff a single "u" line in the prc-tools_i386.upload file, and dupload does it right automatically...) Hmm, could even do that automatically given a mirror. This would require some conniving on the part of Guy Maor's installer scripts (to permit the announcement to reference stuff in the tree, and to reference count tarfiles so that they didn't get deleted prematurely.) It would fit cleanly into the existing framework, though.
