From: guillem@debian.org 
  
 Hi! 
  
 On Fri, 2025-09-12 at 11:00:42 +0900, Simon Richter wrote: 
 > I have a source package where additional tarballs need to be 
 > extracted to a sub-subdirectory. 
 > 
 > Should this be supported by dpkg, i.e. does it make sense for me to 
 > think about this and propose a patch (even though I will need to 
 > wait six years or so to use it), or is this a waste of time and I 
 > should just repack everything? 
  
 At least from what you are describing this should already be supported 
 as part of €€3.0 (quilt)€€ with its multi upstream tarball support, 
 known in some places as MUT, or now as addon original tarballs. See 
 the dpkg-source(1) man page for .orig-.tar. (or previously 
 .orig-.tar.), where each addon orig.tar is extracted 
 into /. 
  
 But perhaps you are thinking about something else? 
  
 Regards, 
 Guillem 
  
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