Source in Bazaar, building Debian source package format 3.0

[John Szakmeister]

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 3:42 AM, James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net> wrote:
> On Tue Dec 01 05:25:40 -0500 2009 John Szakmeister wrote:
>> Sorry for the off-topic question, but I'm interested in knowing more
>> about how the package formats work.  Is there a document somewhere
>> that states what the format of these are, and how they are
>> constructed?  I tried browsing the wiki, googling and other such
>> stuff, but didn't turn up anything that said what the actual contents
>> of one is.
>
> "man dpkg-source" is probably the best documentation I know of.

Thanks James!  I did see that documentation, but didn't go into the
details I was looking for.  This one gets me much closer though:
  http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Debian-Binary-Package-Building-HOWTO/

Thanks again!

-John