Thomas Gummerer [off-list ref] writes:

As I was advocating for this series to go into 'next' without a large
refactor of this series, I'll put my money were my mouth is and try to
make the cleanups and fixes required, though without trying to avoid
further external process calls, or changing the series around too
much.

Thanks for a well-written summary.  One thing that is missing in the
write-up is if you kept the same base (i.e. on top of eacdb4d24f) or
rebased the series on top of somewhere else.  I'd assume you built
on the same base as before in the meantime (I'll know soon enough,
when I sit down on a terminal and resume working on the code ;-)