Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Raphael Hertzog writes ("Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories"):
> Much like we have a "default desktop environment" we should have a default
> layout for a git packaging repository.

There's an argument for that.

Of course (donning my partisan colours) I think the answer should be
dgit-compatible.  I've resisted asking you to document in your DEP the
requirements that dgit impose, but to summarise:

dgit branches are patches-applied packaging branches without[1] .pc
directories.  They must contain everything in the source package
(including any autogenerated files which are in the sources).  The
source package must contain everything that's in git (including
.gitignore, for example).

[1] Current dgit still wants the .pc directory.  This is going to
change, in a backwards- but not forwards- compatible way.