Re: [StGit] Debian packaging update

> Whatever people told you guys, the sad truth is that for the
> overwhelming majority of packages, the mere presence of a debian/
> dir upstream is taken as a warning sign by any seasoned Debian
> developer (i.e. it is so often a problem, we take it as a bad sign).
> It almost never helps. I have no idea where stgit is in that regard,
> though. And I have NOT checked the "upstream version of the Debian
> packaging", so please don't take this personally.
>
> But I can tell you that most DDs would prefer that upstream dumped
> the debian/ dir, unless it is kept *really* current. And really, at
> that point, you are losing a lot of the benefits of a downstream
> maintainer anyway (i.e. you are not delegating the whole issue to
> him, so that you can ignore the packaging and just pay attention to
> stgit itself).
>
> Of course, this changes a lot when upstream is also a Debian
> developer and spends a few hours per week keeping up-to-date with
> Debian policy and toolset changes, etc.