On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:41:02PM +0000, John O Sullivan wrote: > Hi all, > I've noticed something that seems odd to me. > On ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/source > theres a bunch of files (.dsc .diff .orig etc) appearing in this > directory. > Is this the correct behaviour? Is this related to the switch to > package pools? > I'm curious because the same thing isn't happening for the various > binary-* directories and I've seen no explanation for it anywhere.
This is what you should expect to find in a Debian source directory. These files are used to build packages. See 'man dpkg-source'.