Using https://github.com/stadler/pyrocket/archive/v0.8.tar.gz I get the following: daniel@daydream:~/pyrocket$ LC_ALL=C bzr bd -- -S -sa Building using working tree Building package in normal mode Purging the build dir: /home/daniel/build-area/pyrocket-0.8 Looking for a way to retrieve the upstream tarball Upstream tarball already exists in build directory, using that Building the package in /home/daniel/build-area/pyrocket-0.8, using debuild -S -sa dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d -us -uc -S -sa dpkg-buildpackage: source package pyrocket dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.8-0ubuntu1 dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution trusty dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Jackson Doak