NMUs are welcome Use something like the script below to update from Git #!/bin/bash VERSION=6.3~svn680 echo "*.jar export-ignore" > .gitattributes git archive --worktree-attributes \ --format tar \ --prefix libphonenumber/ \ -o ../libphonenumber_${VERSION}.orig.tar \ master cd .. bzip2 libphonenumber_${VERSION}.orig.tar