Debian GMT (Generic Mapping Tools) upstream tarball creation ------------------------------------------------------------ Currently you need to get all required archives by running debian/rules download-upstream which should download the upstream packages for you. After that, building a local package works as expected. To build an official package, first create an orig.tar.gz file from just the upstream folder using debian/rules create-orig-tar After that you need to commit upstream stuff in svn in order to use svn-buildpackage successfully.