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Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> writes:

> Well, it's probably still a quick way to produce snapshot packages
> when needed.  An alternative could be to have Norbert's tree
> accessible, and possibly advertized in the docs, so a simple merge
> would be sufficient to build a snapshot package.

I took a brief look at backports.org and git-core_$V.diff there.
It is my understanding that Norbert's tree is essentially a copy
of Gerrit's, with inevitable differences in debian/changelog.
If we _were_ to replace it with something else, I'd rather get
patches fed from Gerrit.