Prop: produce a folder with package sources

[d4s]

Useful to run autopkgtests

[sjoerdsimons]

Is that with selected source packages unpacked in a defined directory or have all sources or ? Also is the intention to stick it inside a filesystem or to be able to compress them seperately?

Note that this is also useful for debugging tarbals such that the debugger can find the sources to refer to during debugging.

To do this properly we should have infrastructure query the versions of debian packages on the filesystem to ensure we get the correct versions.

[smcv]

To do this properly we should have infrastructure query the versions of debian packages on the filesystem to ensure we get the correct versions.

I have an implementation of this in flatdeb which I'll hopefully convert into (something that can be used as) a debos run script soon.