[kpfleming@digium.com: debian/ in asterisk tarball]

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:

>  Yes, and I would recommend him to use Debian package instead. Perhaps
> we could try to have these kind of packages backported to Sarge, but for
> that we need some more manpower.

Well, except that people can choose different build options 
(optimizations, extra modules, etc.), and then want to package that up 
and install it onto other machines. In others words, they want to make 
their own debs because they will be substantially different from the 
Debian pool packages, not just for the fun of it :-)