Not required by policy, but there's some information that would be
helpful here.
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+This packages is maintained in Git following the procedures in
+dgit-maint-merge(7). Running dpkg-source -x on the source package
+also produces the source of the package, ready for editing. The
+source package format is "1.0" (non-native) to avoid tedious mucking
+around with debian/patches.
+
+Upstream releases are merged from upstream Git tags. To build the
+"upstream tarball", use "gbp export-orig", "git deborig", or anything
+else that can build a .orig tarball based on the upstream release tag.