4.16. Missing sources: debian/missing-sources

Sometimes upstream does not include the source code for some files in the upstream tarball. In order to satisfy the DFSG for packages in main or contrib, you should either:

1. repack the upstream tarball to include those sources; or

2. include a copy of the sources in the debian/missing-sources directory.

There is an optional convention to organise the contents of debian/missing-sources in the following way. For a sourceless file foo in the subdirectory bar of the upstream tarball, where the source of foo has extension baz, the source is to be located at debian/missing-sources/bar/foo.baz. For example, according to this convention, the C source code of an executable checksum/util is to be located at debian/missing-sources/checksum/util.c.