Waiting longer isn't an option IMHO. It's helping to add to the dysfunction
of the team. I will also offer to help if the 3.5 transition gets stuck
because of the git conversion.
Hurry up and break my packages :-)
Do the Vcs-* headers in debian/control get updated automatically or do these need to be updated manually? Looks like it gets updated automatically. Good.
Maybe after the migration, add a check to lintian to check for obsolete Vcs-*? Might ensure no accidents happen, e.g. with somebody building and uploading from old subversion by mistake.
Thinking it might be good to have a list somewhere of packages that should get manually checked (and where this hasn't happened yet) after the migration is complete. Otherwise we might all assume somebody else has checked a package, and it gets forgotten.
I guess I should look at my packages. They tend to be relatively simple, don't expect any problems.
This looks like a mistake to me, Stefano didn't contribute these changes. Suspect it might be a default used because there was no author information in the original debian/patches/* file.