Bastien has a git-patches file that looks like
upstream/$UPSTREAM_REF..debian-patches/$DEB_REF
It seems reasonable to at least try to support the case where those two
refs point to the same commit. The last fix to gitpkg means that it does
not generate debian/patches anymore.
Unfortunately the current lintian check considers the presence of a
git-patches file, along with the absence of patches, to indicated an
error. Lintian of course has no way of knowing whether or not the
git-patches file was supposed to produce patches.
I'd be willing to modify the lintian check to look for some
".quilt-export-wuz-here" file, although this seems a bit ugly. Another
idea I had was to have the quilt export hook actually remove git-patches
from the source package. The file isn't useful for people who don't have
a git clone in any case, except perhaps as documentation.
Finally we could throw our hands up in despair and downgrade the
severity of the lintian error to a warning.
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