I was objecting the "Debian workflow is more complex than a forking" part. In reality it's even simpler than what I described (if you don't remove the deb-src

I was objecting the "Debian workflow is more complex than a forking" part. In reality it's even simpler than what I described (if you don't remove the deb-src lines from your apt source config like I do). If you want to modify a Debian package you only need to use "source" instead of "install" for the package you need, for example "apt source curl" will download the tarball, diff and dsc file for the curl package in the working directory, no browser involved. ^__^; I use the tracker site when I need to build some packages from unstable or experimental, usually recent libraries that I couldn't find on backports.debian.org.