>>>>> "gregor" == gregor herrmann <gre...@debian.org> writes:
>> General Recommendation ====================== This entire section effectively only applies to individual packages that are not in a team. Would "When there is no Team to use" or similar be a better headline and address your concern? >> This recommendation is intended for people who are simply looking >> for an approach that will work well with approaches others are >> using. If you are packaging something in a large team, follow >> their existing practices. gregor> […] >> You should document the branch format (such as patches unapplied >> (gbp pq)) that your repository uses. Best practice for >> documenting this is still evolving. The best current option is >> to document your branch format in debian/README.source. >> Alternatively if you use `dgit push-source`, your source format >> is documented in maintainer tags. gregor> Does this paragraph refer to repos in the Debian group or to gregor> all repos, i.e. team-maintained ones? As implied by above, effectively non-team stuff. That recommendation technically applies to: * debian group * Things created in personal namespaces by non-DDs who don't want to wait for someone to create a debian-group repo for them. but yes, I was explicitly not wanting to make teams document source package format in README.source.