Hi Mike, I'm a developer with the Arch Linux team. I was notified of your post [1] by another dev. I'm not familiar with this Aram fellow, but please do not let this stop you from removing the source on your server. Every Arch installation includes bsdtar, which is also capable of ripping apart .deb archives. Additionally, the only packages to use deb2targz are packages in the user repository -- unsupported by the dev team. We've already removed deb2targz from our community repo. Thanks, Dave [1] http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/deb/