Hi,

>>> Peter Green (plugwash, of Raspbian) has some kind of gitish
>>> autoforwardporter for patches.  I keep meaning to investigate it...
>>
>> Thanks for the pointer, I'll see if I can get anything out of it!
> 
> It was mentioned on the vcs-pkg and dpkg-devel lists.  Err, not sure
> of the list names but hopefully that will be enough to find it...

I found this mail, doesn't contain further details though:
<https://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2017/03/msg00004.html>

> I had one further thought for you: you are evidently using a build
> mode that builds a source package.  If you build only binary packages
> then you can forget about dgit quilt-fixup, and do not need to use
> dgit to do the build - dpkg-buildpackage is fine.

I want to build my packages using sbuild to (a) avoid installing all
these build-deps in my main install and (b) have a higher confidence in
the builds being clean.  From what I can tell, this requires going
through a source package?

Kind regards,
Ralf

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