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!70 (merged) breaks compatibility with people who had the ignore-kde-structure setting set in their config files. When they run kdesrc-build, they get a barely comprehensible error message:

ignore-kde-structure is deprecated, please use directory-layout instead for sysadmin-repo-metadata
Deprecated ignore-kde-structure will be ignored in favour of directory-layout for sysadmin-repo-metadata
kdesrc-build encountered an exceptional error condition:
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    Runtime Error: No such source directory /home/nate/kde/src/sysadmin/repo-metadata!
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        Can't continue, so stopping now.

And then it aborts. This is not very user-friendly, and seems to go against the idea of preserving backwards compatibility.

Please consider automatically interpreting ignore-kde-structure true or the lack of it as directory-layout flat, and interpreting ignore-kde-structure false as directory-layout metadata. This would preserve the existing behavior for people's setups.