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+For occasional contributions, the preferred way to contribute to this repository is to create a branch on salsa.debian.org, create a merge request and ask for the merge request to be review on debian-desktop@lists.debian.org.
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+For Debian developers and maintainers doing the tag and publication work for the package, the preferred workflow is the following.
+- During development cycle:
+   ·  simply git commit, or accept merge requests
+- To prepare a release:
+   ·  gbp dch -R --commit
+   ·  gbp buildpackage --git-tag
+- To prepare d/changelog for the next development cycle:
+   ·  gbp dch -N new_version --commit