Yes, that's exactly how i built the source package. ;) I tried it again however (some messages are in italian, sorry): ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ cesare@beltade:~/tmp/mame140/mame-0.140$ ls -l totale 81 drwxr-xr-x 4 cesare cesare 760 2010-11-16 21:28 debian drwxr-xr-x 2 cesare cesare 200 2010-11-18 18:08 docs -rw-r--r-- 1 cesare cesare 17410 2010-11-18 18:08 makefile drwxr-xr-x 9 cesare cesare 248 2010-11-18 18:08 src -rw-r--r-- 1 cesare cesare 61400 2010-11-18 18:08 whatsnew.txt cesare@beltade:~/tmp/mame140/mame-0.140$ debuild -S -sa dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d -us -uc -S -sa dpkg-buildpackage: export CFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -g -O2 dpkg-buildpackage: export CPPFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): dpkg-buildpackage: export CXXFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -g -O2 dpkg-buildpackage: export FFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -g -O2 dpkg-buildpackage: export LDFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions dpkg-buildpackage: source package mame dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.140-0ubuntu1 dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Cesare Falco dpkg-source --before-build mame-0.140 fakeroot debian/rules clean dh clean dh_testdir debian/rules override_dh_auto_clean make[1]: ingresso nella directory «/home/cesare/tmp/mame140/mame-0.140» /usr/bin/make OPT_FLAGS="-D'INI_PATH=\"/etc/mame\"'" FULLNAME=mame TARGET=mame SUBTARGET=mame OSD=sdl CROSS_BUILD_OSD= TARGETOS=unix PREFIX= SUFFIX= DEBUG= PROFILER= NOWERROR= MACOSX_USE_LIBSDL= BUILD_EXPAT= BUILD_ZLIB= SYMBOLS= SYMLEVEL= DUMPSYM= PROFILE= MAP= VERBOSE= OPTIMIZE=3 DISTRO=gcc44-generic ARCHOPTS=-march=athlon64 FORCE_DRC_C_BACKEND= PTR64=1 BIGENDIAN= clean make[2]: ingresso nella directory «/home/cesare/tmp/mame140/mame-0.140» Deleting object tree obj/sdl/mame... Deleting mame... Deleting testkeys romcmp chdman jedutil unidasm ldresample ldverify regrep srcclean src2html split ... make[2]: uscita dalla directory «/home/cesare/tmp/mame140/mame-0.140» /usr/bin/make OPT_FLAGS="-D'INI_PATH=\"/etc/mame\"'" FULLNAME=mame TARGET=mame SUBTARGET=mame OSD=sdl CROSS_BUILD_OSD= TARGETOS=unix PREFIX= SUFFIX= DEBUG= PROFILER= NOWERROR= MACOSX_USE_LIBSDL= BUILD_EXPAT= BUILD_ZLIB= SYMBOLS= SYMLEVEL= DUMPSYM= PROFILE= MAP= VERBOSE= OPTIMIZE=3 DISTRO=gcc44-generic ARCHOPTS=-march=athlon64 FORCE_DRC_C_BACKEND= PTR64=1 BIGENDIAN= TARGET=ldplayer \ FULLNAME=ldplayer \ SUBTARGET=ldplayer \ clean make[2]: ingresso nella directory «/home/cesare/tmp/mame140/mame-0.140» Deleting object tree obj/sdl/ldplayer... Deleting ldplayer... Deleting testkeys romcmp chdman jedutil unidasm ldresample ldverify regrep srcclean src2html split ... make[2]: uscita dalla directory «/home/cesare/tmp/mame140/mame-0.140» rm -rf obj/ make[1]: uscita dalla directory «/home/cesare/tmp/mame140/mame-0.140» dh_clean dpkg-source -b mame-0.140 dpkg-source: info: using source format `3.0 (quilt)' dpkg-source: info: building mame using existing ./mame_0.140.orig.tar.bz2 dpkg-source: info: building mame in mame_0.140-0ubuntu1.debian.tar.gz dpkg-source: info: building mame in mame_0.140-0ubuntu1.dsc dpkg-genchanges -S -sa >../mame_0.140-0ubuntu1_source.changes dpkg-genchanges: including full source code in upload dpkg-source --after-build mame-0.140 dpkg-buildpackage: full upload (original source is included) Now running lintian... Finished running lintian. Now signing changes and any dsc files... signfile mame_0.140-0ubuntu1.dsc Cesare Falco