Hi, > Heck, you shouldn't even need to build your own debs if we do this > right; this will trickle down to bookworm and, from there, backports, > ubuntu, etc.
Agreed, from my perspective an upstream-included debian/ dir is only useful until it gets packaged. From that point onwards fetching a Debian source package for rebuilds is way simpler and downstream distros like Ubuntu sync from Debian anyway instead of an upstream repo. It's also one thing less to maintain/keep in sync. Cheers, Moritz