Re: dpkg-dev: please reject native/non-native version when building native/non-native source packages

[Lukas Anzinger <l.anzinger@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> wrote:
> The 3.0 (native) format is useful when packaging a work that is developped and
> distributed in a Git repository.  Please leave us this possibility.

Can you elaborate a bit? From my understanding of your description I'd
consider your (git) workflow flawed since your generated source
package has the upstream tar ball and all your Debian specific changes
merged into it.

git-buildpackage helps you to separate the upstream sources and the
Debian folder with its patches. This way it's possible to maintain a
package conveniently in git but also produce 3.0 (quilt) packages
where even if one doesn't use git (or the git repo vanishes) is still
possible to see what modifications has been done to the source
compared to the upstream release.

Regards,

Lukas