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@@ -467,6 +467,22 @@ the git-buildpackage and git-dpm maintainers about this.  I'm
 optimistic particularly about git-buildpackage.
 
 
+There is a difficulty with empty directories in source packages.  git
+refuses to handle empty directories - they tend to just vanish from
+commits and checkouts.  But I'm told there are some source packages
+whose orig tarballs contain empty directories, and build systems
+depend on those empty directories.
+
+Currently if you dgit clone such a package, it won't build.  I don't
+have a particularly good answer to this problem right now.  It's no
+good to have dgit create these directories in the working tree, when
+it notices, because the git branches might be transported by plain git
+and used elsewhere.
+
+This can be worked around in the source package by either adding
+something to debian/rules to create these directories, or by adding
+some files to the directories to make them nonempty.  But at the
+moment a maintainer is not required to do either of these things.
 
 
 And then there are a couple of exciting possibilities for new uses:
@@ -474,7 +490,10 @@ And then there are a couple of exciting possibilities for new uses:
 Firstly, it would be very nice to have a way for a sponsee to provide
 a dgitish git branch, which the sponsor could work with directly and
 ultimately dgit push.  I'm really need to talk about this with some
-people more familiar than me with the sponsorship queue infrastructure.
+people more familiar than me with the sponsorship queue
+infrastructure.
+
+
 
 Secondly, dgit is not just for Debian.  Other distros currently using
 only source packages can use it too.  Read-only support doesn't
@@ -488,9 +507,23 @@ I hear rumours that Ubuntu might grow a dgit git server and support
 dgit push.  Patches very welcome!
 
 
-xxx==== Thanks and more info slide
+==== Thanks and more info slide
+
+Finally, there are some people I need to thank.
+
+At least half of the design of dgit is Joey Hess's, at the now-famous
+session in Vaumarcus.
+
+Debian System Administration, and particularly Peter Palfrader, have
+been absolutely brilliant.  The level of service and competence has
+been outstanding.  Ever time I noticed some aspect I had forgotten,
+and made a blatherous and ill-thought-out request, DSA would propose a
+much better alternative and implement their end of it it almost
+immediately.
 
-xxx thank dsa ftpmaster
+Also, I'd like to thank the ftpmasters for setting up the new
+ftpmaster data service.  This has enabled me to extend dgit's
+useability to non-DDs.
 
 
 So that's most of what I have prepared.  There's, of course, a lot