Ian Jackson <[email protected]> writes: > The reason there are as many as four there is that we're maintaining a > downstream patch queue, and maintaining and updating and sharing a > such a downstream patch queue, with git, is an open research problem.
An added complexity is that sometimes upstream will add non-DFSG compliant files to their source, and as such we have to repackage the upstream orig tar.gz file to remove these files. Something that as a maintainer I have already hated. -- Brian May @ Debian
