When the Debian delta contains multiple pieces which interact,
or which you aren't going to be able to upstream soon,
it might be preferable to
-maintain the delta as a rebasing patch series,
-to facilitate
-reviewing/upstreaming/dropping
-individual pieces.
+maintain the delta as a rebasing patch series.
For such a workflow see for example
dgit-maint-gbp(7).
=back
-See dgit-maint-merge(7) for more information.
(If you have dgit, use dgit clone foo,
rather than plain git clone.)