from the other manpages

Closes: #660898

Git-Dch: Ignore

by setting the GBP_CONF_FILES environment variable.

during clean so we don't step on any epydoc leftovers

Closes: #663103

Closes: #661748
Thanks: Jari Alto for the POD version

Closes: #663001

for a working git merge --no-edit

Thanks: Jonathan Nieder

defaulting to False

Closes: #659239

Git-Dch: Ignore

Closes: #650465

Allows defining the formerly hardcoded patch_dir. This makes
write_patch() re-usable in the upcoming RPM-tools.

Signed-off-by: Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>

Debian release 0.6.0~git20120218

when guessing authorship information

Signed-off-by: Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>

not the system ones

Git-Dch: Ignore

Split GbpOptionParser in to a common base class and a Debian
specific subclass, as a preparation for upcoming RPM support.

This allows having different default values (and help texts) for common
options between different package types, and, clearer separation of
package type specific options.

Signed-off-by: Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>

which is already in Squeeze and Lenny Backports

the versions in Squeeze are recent enough.

Closes: #659661

that don't support user-defined output formats (tar filters) in
git-archive.

Closes: #59290

Closes: #658777