Yes, it's necessary for Debian-specific patches to be applied automatically. I'll have a look into how to make gbp behave in this case. I've used dpkg-buildpackage locally and it worked well.
On 23.01.2017 21:14, Neels Hofmeyr wrote:
If I change it back to 'native', gbp can again figure out the version number on my machine. Do you need that quilt thing for something else??