Package: git-buildpackage Version: 0.9.38 For the past 2 years I have helped numerous people debug why their Debian packaging git repo is messed up, or why imports or builds are failing on various errors from git-buildpackage not finding branches or tags or sources.
I would estimate that in 90% of the cases the root cause has been that the debian/gbp.conf was missing, and thus the different people or the same person at different times ran git-buildpackage with different settings, resulting in hard to detect and hard to revert mistakes. What is git-buildpackage itself would have a small notice on every run if no debian/gbp.conf was found? Or even better, if people run it with options like --debian-branch, --upstream-branch, --upstream-vcs-tag, --pristine-tar etc it could generate the debian/gbp.conf and tell people that if they commit that file they don't need to specify those same options again in next invocation?
