Hello,

On Fri, Apr 20 2018, kact...@gnu.org wrote:

> [2018-04-19 10:14] Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name>
>> Hello both,
>>
>> If Dmitry wants to continue to use dgit-maint-merge(7), using 3.0
>> (quilt) will not help.  It will not introduce any additional
>> metadata.  The only change will be the addition of a patch header
>> pointing to dgit-repos.
>
> What do you mean by 'additional metadata'? Patch headers generated
> from git commits?

I mean separated patches.

>> Switching to dgit-maint-gbp(7) means using a patches-unapplied
>> workflow.  [...]
>
> I want to be able to do raw `dpkg-buildpackage`. I guess it means
> patches-applied workflow, am I right.

Basically yes.

>> In the next month or so we (Ian Jackson and I) will be releasing a
>> workflow called dgit-maint-debrebase(7) which
>>
>> - is patches-applied; but
>> - automatically generates a perfect 3.0 (quilt) representation of the
>>   Debian changes.
>>
>> I.e. it should satisfy everyone.
>
> I am okay to wait for your next invention. Last one I remember --
> separate patches instead of single squashed patch in
> dgit-maint-merge(7) was awesome.

Sorry but I don't understand this last sentence.  Perhaps you could
rephrase.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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