Hi James, thank you very much for your investigations! Since I "forked" debian-asto off from debian-science, I feel responsible for the parts concerning astro.
However, I must say that I don't completely understand the hooks completely. I tried to patch the directories and the ./setup-repository script, obviously somehow wrongly. The point here is that I still have no use of the hook and of the *-commits messages, and probably noone else had it seriously, that's why it was undiscovered all the time. What are they used for? I could imagine, CI test triggers; however sometimes I get a "reject" message (because a change was too big), so a CI trigger would be unreliable. What else? Could you give me some specific advice on what schould be changed in the debian-astro repositories? I feel a bit lost on where in the $(package).git directory to add which file and content. Best regards Ole

