Source: apt-src Section: admin Priority: optional Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>= 4), dpkg-dev (>= 1.9.0) Maintainer: Joey Hess Standards-Version: 3.5.6.1 Package: apt-src Architecture: all Section: admin Depends: libapt-pkg-perl, dpkg-dev, apt, ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Description: manage debian source packages apt-src is a command line interface for downloading, installing, upgrading, and tracking debian source packages. It can be run as a normal user, or as root. If you want a convenient way to track updates to packages while preserving your local modifications, this is a way to do that.