though one calls diff with -a to make the 01_<package>_branch.diff file, dpkg-source still won't call diff with -a, so there may be issues. perhaps we're better off preventively uu-encoding them all, just in case. -- Adeodato Simó EM: asp16 [ykwim] alu.ua.es | PK: DA6AE621 Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens. -- Michel de Montaigne