Package: alfred Version: 2015.1 Severity: normal Don't repackage upstream tarball. The upstream tarball seems to be fine and doesn't require any changes from you. Here are the md5sums of the upstream tarball:
# curl https://downloads.open-mesh.org/batman/stable/sources/alfred/alfred-2015.1.tar.gz -o alfred-2015.1.tar.gz # zcat alfred-2015.1.tar.gz > alfred-2015.1.tar fcce70cd8da764ee91c8cd2cbfa14362 alfred-2015.1.tar.gz 82dce03d95275db521509a7b6eb3359a alfred-2015.1.tar# curl https://downloads.open-mesh.org/batman/stable/sources/alfred/alfred-2015.1.tar.gz.md5 -o alfred-2015.1.tar.gz.md5 # md5sum -c alfred-2015.1.tar.gz.md5 alfred-2015.1.tar.gz: OK But now your tarball: # curl http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20151210T041704Z/pool/main/a/alfred/alfred_2015.1.orig.tar.xz -o alfred_2015.1.orig.tar.xz # xzcat alfred_2015.1.orig.tar.xz > alfred_2015.1.orig.tar # md5sum alfred_2015.1.orig.tar.xz alfred_2015.1.orig.tar e754005fd803ba6cba4a71615063b54c alfred_2015.1.orig.tar.xz 7678727a15235a151fa40aa2f049818b alfred_2015.1.orig.tar If you need to modify the tarball then mark the resulting tarball with dfsg.1 in the version part and document what in the DFSG required to modify this tarball. And if you need to repack it then provide the script to generate the dfsg.1 file as described at https://wiki.debian.org/BenFinney/software/repack
