here are some scripts to download the sources for every package installed on your Debian or Ubuntu system, then track all the source code in a (typically) giant single git repository.
https://github.com/kenta2/debian-all-source
it has worked pretty well so far for Debian sid.
using git diff, you can view the source code changes made by package upgrades on your system. unfortunately, the scripts work after you've upgraded; you can't preview source code changes before upgrading.
in an open-source system, although source code is theoretically available, most people never look at it because accessing it is usually a little complicated. Debian does better than most with "apt-get source"; we've built on this.
seeing changes, often annotated with Changelog or NEWS file, helps understand code.
more commentary in the README.md file in the repository.
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