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[Daniel Holbach <daniel.holbach@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It's a good idea to also cover the traditional tools and link to them in
the current articles. Particularly for cases like where the importer
currently has difficulties this makes sense and will provide "a way out
of trouble". I just filed bug 809925 to track this.

Generally UDD is the future of Ubuntu development. It's not a distant
future and it is lived already, so I'm not quite sure what we would fix
by renaming the guide. It would require us to rename/shuffle-around/etc.
and after some time revert it back again. This would create another
problem: When would it be reverted back? When a gremium decides? When
nobody objects any more?

Also do I feel it's very hard to write a "general packaging guide" if
you are trying to capture the workflows of all kinds of developers.
There is and always will be many ways to "do it" and it's fine for some
teams to try out something new and use tools that suit them. The down-
side of this is obviously that new contributors will always be baffled
by the amount of different tools that can get the job done or even are
expected to be used in some circumstances. This is why we decided in a
lot of conversations about this project that we want to have simple
task-based articles that are straight-forward and help them solve a
specific problem but point out in knowledge-base articles how other
approaches might work, or how more advanced features work.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/792381

Title:
  Not really an "Ubuntu Packaging Guide"

Status in Ubuntu Packaging Guide:
  New

Bug description:
  This guide only covers UDD, not the tools and processes that (I
  believe) most Ubuntu developers use.  It should either reflect the
  mature and reliable toolset that is normallly used or be renamed to
  make it clear this is not a general packaging guide.

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