Currently ginac misses vcs fields in debian/control, and upstream (you ;-)) for some reason does not carry (or just does not expose) Debian packaging within http://www.ginac.de/ginac.git So, why not to expose debian/ branch (or some other branch) within upstream git repository, and (optionally) provide debian/gbp.conf listing what is the branch with debian packaging and what is upstream, so people could just debcheckout ginac and git-buildpackage it ;) ? Availability of vcs fields would make it easier to contribute patches to packaging or upstream. Cheers, Yarik