Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#817951: Simple helpers for handling orig tarballs for
packages where upstream's git is the canonical source"):
> Could you give me some indication of what these other utilities will do?
Something to turn a branch which is a mixture of pseudomerges,
upstream or mixed linear commits, and Debian linear commits, into
something you could sensibly do `git rebase' on. That would be part
of a rebasey dgit workflow, but might be useful for other purposes.
(#720177; doesn't need to be a dgit verb and maybe shouldn't be.)
Something to conveniently import a tarball as a git commit (or
optionally, just a tree).
Utility to help do repeated merge for a downstream distro using
--quilt=smash.
> Depending on how dgit-specific they are, we could try to get some of
> these into devscripts.
Perhaps, yes. Maybe your proposed script wants to be in devscripts.
devscripts is already rather namespace-abusive, so maybe if it's there
we don't care much...
Ian.
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