# # getting the upstream sources # New upstream tarballs are located here http://www.torproject.org/vidalia/dist/vidalia-0.1.13.tar.gz # # Debian specific patches # Debian specific patches reside in debian/patches/ and are applied with quilt. # # using pbuilder # tar -zxf vidalia-0.1.13.tar.gz cd vidalia-0.1.13/ pbuilder Here a small readme in order to use the upstream tarballs: I'm used to this pbuilderrc to ease my life: MIRRORSITE="http://mirrors.163.com/debian/" DEBBUILDOPTS="-i.git -si" DEBOOTSTRAP="debootstrap" APTCACHE="/var/cache/apt/archives" DEBIAN_FRONTEND="readline" AUTO_DEBSIGN=yes So for building this package go to vidalia-0.1.13/ and call there e.g.: % ln -sf ../vidalia-0.1.13.tar.gz vidalia_0.1.13.orig.tar.gz % dch -i % pdebuild the resulting files are found in /var/cache/pbuilder/result/