diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index bf1039b431..30208e345f 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -1977,6 +1977,7 @@
             <arg value="../i2p-${Extended.Version}" />
         </exec>
         <delete includeemptydirs="true" quiet="false">
+            <fileset dir="../i2p-${Extended.Version}/debian-alt/" />
             <fileset dir="../i2p-${Extended.Version}/installer/lib/" />
             <fileset dir="../i2p-${Extended.Version}/Slackware" />
             <fileset dir="../i2p-${Extended.Version}/_MTN" />
@@ -1995,6 +1996,48 @@
         </tar>
     </target>
 
+    <!-- same as debian-tarball but with a release tar.bz2 file name and tar prefix -->
+    <target name="debian-release-tarball" depends="getExtendedVersion">
+        <!-- this will use the monotonerc file in the current workspace -->
+        <fail message="This target cannot be used without Monotone! Use &quot;fakeroot debian/rules get-orig-source&quot; instead.">
+            <condition>
+                <not>
+                    <isset property="mtn.available" />
+                </not>
+            </condition>
+        </fail>
+        <property name="debian.tarball.name" value="i2p_${release.number}.orig.tar.bz2" />
+        <echo message="Checking out fresh copy into ../i2p-${Extended.Version} for tarballing:" />
+        <delete dir="../i2p-${Extended.Version}" />
+        <exec executable="mtn" failonerror="true">
+            <arg value="co" />
+            <arg value="-b" />
+            <arg value="i2p.i2p" />
+            <!-- w: is the revision of the current workspace -->
+            <arg value="-r" />
+            <arg value="w:" />
+            <arg value="../i2p-${Extended.Version}" />
+        </exec>
+        <delete includeemptydirs="true" quiet="false">
+            <fileset dir="../i2p-${Extended.Version}/debian-alt/" />
+            <fileset dir="../i2p-${Extended.Version}/installer/lib/" />
+            <fileset dir="../i2p-${Extended.Version}/Slackware" />
+            <fileset dir="../i2p-${Extended.Version}/_MTN" />
+        </delete>
+        <tar longfile="gnu" destfile="../${debian.tarball.name}" compression="bzip2">
+            <tarfileset dir="../i2p-${Extended.Version}" prefix="/i2p-${release.number}">
+                <include name="**/**" />
+                <exclude name="debian/**"/>
+                <exclude name="debian-alt/**"/>
+                <exclude name="**/*.sh"/>
+            </tarfileset>
+            <tarfileset dir="../i2p-${Extended.Version}" prefix="/i2p-${release.number}" filemode="755">
+                <exclude name="debian/**" />
+                <include name="**/*.sh" />
+            </tarfileset>
+        </tar>
+    </target>
+
     <target name="debian-patch" depends="getExtendedVersion" >
         <exec executable="quilt" failonerror="true">
             <arg value="-a" />