> I've also kept the full upstream history in the upstream branch, > assuming this to be more robust and powerful. For example, this allows > to directly cherry-pick commits into the patch queue.
you can add remote repository and cherry-pick upstream commits as you like > Since both these practices are discouraged by the policy, I'm ready to > give them up, please do > but before I spend time working on it, I would like to ask > whether tinyarray could be exempt from any one of both rules. According > with the policy, I would provide a debian/README.source file with the > above rationale and instructions. having one workflow makes it a lot easier to work on team packages, please don't add exceptions if they're not really needed -- GPG: 1D2F A898 58DA AF62 1786 2DF7 AEF6 F1A2 A745 7645