It would be helpful to have 'git am' recognize DEP-3 style patch headers
in Debian. While it correctly extracts the author and description when
the headers are called 'Subject' and 'From', it fails to do so when the
alternative forms 'Description' and 'Author' are used.

Since we have DEP-3 in Debian, and I've had to apply an existing quilt
patch from a Debian packaging repo to a github clone of the upstream
repo in order to forward it quite frequently lately, I think it would
generally be useful to have this feature, at least as a Debian-only
addition.

Hi Florian,

I agree with this, and at the time of writing, this issue is still
oustanding. That said, I'm wondering whether the solution is:

- Patch upstream git to do this
- Patch only Debian's git to do this (would require the git package
maintainer to rebase the patch after every release... possible quite ugly)
- Modify dquilt to generate git am compatible headers.

I don't feel like I have enough background to suggest which of these is
the right way to go, but I am interested in helping to get this done, as
it would be very useful to myself and others.

Any thoughts?