Source: apt-src Section: admin Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), po4a Maintainer: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) Standards-Version: 4.5.1 Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: apt-src Architecture: all Section: admin Depends: libapt-pkg-perl (>= 0.1.6), dpkg-dev, apt, ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Recommends: sudo, fakeroot, build-essential Description: manage Debian source packages apt-src is a command line interface for downloading, installing, upgrading, and tracking Debian source packages. It makes source package management feel a lot like using apt to manage binary packages, and is being used as a testbed to work on adding source dependencies to Debian. . It can be run as a normal user, or as root. If you want a convenient way to track updates to packages while preserving your local modifications, this is a way to do that.