Debian just made available a Web search engine allowing to find the source of any package they ship, searching by package name, or by source code with regex for the sid edition.

You can also browse by prefix and by page.

Really easy and handy, thanks Debian folks.

https://sources.debian.org/

well, some of my SlackBuilds use debian sources and patches, so that's really convenient

Hmm I just looked up a couple of things and the results pointed to directories of source code. No tarballs. Unless I missed something?

Thats right. But still the tarballs are easy to find.

Let's say I am looking for orca:
https://sources.debian.org/search/orca/
The name for Debian is gnome-orca. Let's go there:
https://sources.debian.org/src/gnome-orca/
I am interested in the most recent release:
https://sources.debian.org/src/gnome-orca/3.26.0-2/
Now I click on PTS (Package Tracking System) in the small package info frame on the right:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gnome-orca
Then I click on the link to the source in the General tab:
https://packages.debian.org/search?s...rds=gnome-orca
Then at the bottom I can either click on sid and find the links to the source tarballs, or on gnome-orca to find the link to the binary package.

That can seem a long way, but it takes less time to actually do it than to write that down

Actually I have already packaged orca and I took the source tarball directly from a Gnome repo but that's just an example...

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Ah thanks. Will be useful.

I find also useful their git repository on Alioth

https://anonscm.debian.org/git/

with the modifications log

https://anonscm.debian.org/git/users...nome-orca.git/

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Thanks, ponce. More useful links.