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diff --git a/resources.dbk b/resources.dbk
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--- a/resources.dbk
+++ b/resources.dbk
@@ -571,20 +571,33 @@ There are two types of Debian packages, namely source and
binary packages.
-Source packages consist of either two or three files: a
-.dsc file, and either a .tar.gz file
-or both an .orig.tar.gz and a
-.diff.gz file.
-
-
-If a package is developed specially for Debian and is not distributed outside
-of Debian, there is just one .tar.gz file which contains
-the sources of the program. If a package is distributed elsewhere too, the
-.orig.tar.gz file stores the so-called upstream
-source code, that is the source code that's distributed by the
-upstream maintainer (often the author of the software).
-In this case, the .diff.gz contains the changes made by
-the Debian maintainer.
+Depending on the format of the source package, it will consist
+of one or more files in addition to the mandatory .dsc
+file:
+
+with format â1.0â, it has either a .tar.gz
+file or both an .orig.tar.gz and a
+.diff.gz file;
+with format â3.0 (quilt)â, it has a mandatory
+.orig.tar.{gz,bz2,lzma} upstream tarball,
+muliple optional .orig-component.tar.{gz,bz2,lzma} additional upstream tarballs and a
+mandatory debian.tar.{gz,bz2,lzma} debian tarball;
+with format â3.0 (native)â, it has only
+a single .tar.{gz,bz2,lzma} tarball.
+
+
+
+If a package is developed specially for Debian and is not distributed
+outside of Debian, there is just one
+.tar.{gz,bz2,lzma} file which contains the sources of
+the program, it's called a ânativeâ source package. If a package is
+distributed elsewhere too, the
+.orig.tar.{gz,bz2,lzma} file stores the so-called
+upstream source code, that is the source code that's
+distributed by the upstream maintainer (often the
+author of the software). In this case, the .diff.gz
+or the debian.tar.{gz,bz2,lzma} contains the changes
+made by the Debian maintainer.
The .dsc file lists all the files in the source package