I have recently started packaging a bash script of mine into a .deb
file so that I can upload it to my PPA, and I have noticed a lot of talk about a file which seems to have been created from my source code or something called <packagename>_<versionnumber>.orig.tar.xz
(<packagename>
replaced by the name of the package that I am using dh-make
to package, and <versionnumber>
replaced by the version number). I have also noticed that a folder called debian
with lots of files in it has been created, and I have been following some official Debian guides to edit the files.
But I still don't really understand what this .orig.tar.xz
file is, what its purpose is, and how it is used with this debian
folder. Could anyone explain this to me?