Dear Maintainer,
When bootstrapping a new Debian packaging repository with gbp import-orig (and
by this I mean importing an orig tarball into an empty repository); an upstream
tarball containing a debian/ directory results in that directory being imported
into both the upstream and Debian packaging branches.
I think this is a sensible default. However, I don't see any straightforward
way to bootstrap a repository without upstream's debian/ directory being included
on the newly-created packaging branch while keeping upstream's debian/ directory
on the upstream branch.
For example, in an empty Git repository and a dummy upstream orig tarball:
gbp import-orig \
--debian-branch=master \
--upstream-branch=upstream \
--pristine-tar \
--upstream-version=1.0.0 \
../dummy_v1.0.0.tar.gz
The debian/ directory from the orig tarball appears in both branches.