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Ubuntu: What are they doing to the vanilla sources?

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Mar 15, 2026739 views
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Correct me if I am wrong As far as I know distros like Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora usually modify the vanilla source code before creating a package. What's the reason behind these changes? Is there a problem with the original source? How can I get the list of changes and the reason for those changes made …

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Will get you two or three files: "original" tarball (sometimes modified, but rarely... the only change is often the file name) -- named *.orig.tar.gz, the debian changes in form of *.diff.gz file, and some metadata. Sometimes the .diff.gz file is mi…

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