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).
=head2 Sample text for debian/source/patch-header
-It is a good idea to explain how a user can obtain a break down of the
+It is a good idea to explain how a user can obtain a breakdown of the
changes to the upstream source:
=over 4
The Debian packaging of foo is maintained in git,
using the merging workflow described in dgit-maint-merge(7).
-An automatically generated representation of the Debian changes follows.
+There isn't a patch queue that can be represented as a quilt series.
-A detailed break down of these changes is available from their
+A detailed breakdown of the changes is available from their
canonical representation -
git commits in the packaging repository.
For example, to see the changes made by the Debian maintainer in the
=back
-See dgit-maint-merge(7) for more information.
(If you have dgit, use dgit clone foo,
rather than plain git clone.)
+A single combined diff, containing all the changes, follows.
+
=back
Alternatively, this text could be added to README.source. However,