add some notes about the upstream tarball situation

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diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
index 5ad55934..88c1d553 100644
--- a/debian/README.Debian
+++ b/debian/README.Debian
@@ -105,4 +105,21 @@ bbstored-certs ca sign clientaccount-csr.pem
 You will find a more detailled documentation on the boxbackup Web site:
 http://www.fluffy.co.uk/boxbackup/
 
- -- Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de>, Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:04:01 +0200
+
+"Upstream" tarball
+------------------
+
+Althogh upstream indeed publishes tarballs, the debian package is no
+longer based on these tarballs. The reason for this is that the
+procedure for creating these tarballs makes package maintenance and
+interaction with upstream unnecessary hard.
+
+Moreover, there seem to be different types of tarballs. Official ones
+used for a release and "unofficial" ones that are created for snapshot
+releases, causing further confusion.
+
+Since upstream releases rather seldomly, but we want to distribute
+pre-releases and integrate patches from the upstream svn, the package
+ships a script in the source that is used to create the orig.tar.gz.
+
+ -- Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de>, Wed,  1 Apr 2009 09:53:08 +0200