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[Stefano Rivera <launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Can then the packaging guide suggest to check debcheckout or something
else like Vcs-Bzr to check which branch is actually the packaging
branch?

That's the case for desktop packages, but not most of universe. There
are packages with Vcs-Bzr pointing at alioth (I maintain a couple of
those).

We discussed this in #ubuntu-devel the other night:
http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2011/07/06/%23ubuntu-devel.html#t15:28

Either we need to:
1. mangle Vcs fields, so only Ubuntu-specific Vcs-Bzr fields remain,
2. use XS-Ubuntu-Vcs-Bzr, fallback to UDD,
3. use Vcs-Bzr when "ubuntu" is in the version, fallback to UDD,
4. look for "ubuntu" in Vcs-Bzr, fallback to UDD, or
5. combine 2 with 3 or 4

1. requires no tool changes.
1 and 2 but wouldn't be usable until every desktop package was updated.
2, 3, 4 and 5 require patching debcheckout / another tool (pull-lp-source could be taught to do this)

I don't think the packaging guide should be updated until a choice is
taken here.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/800768

Title:
  packaging guide should suggest to try debcheckout or look at Vcs-Bzr

Status in Ubuntu Packaging Guide:
  New

Bug description:
  We have some packages having debian/ only directory and not set to
  lp:ubuntu/<package_name>. It's the case for most of ubuntu-desktop
  package and some other packages where dx is upstreamed.

  People contributing to ubuntu will follow
  http://people.canonical.com/~dholbach/packaging-guide/html/udd-
  intro.html#getting-the-source  and so, propose the patch against the
  wrong branch. See here an example:
  https://code.launchpad.net/~amoog/ubuntu/oneiric/libqtbamf/lp-765915/+merge/65132

  I discussed about launchpad automatically taking Vcs-Bzr in my last
  patch pilot report: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-
  devel/2011-June/033449.html However, it seems that for debian/ only
  packaging branch, it's not suited to set it them.

  Can then the packaging guide suggest to check debcheckout or something
  else like Vcs-Bzr to check which branch is actually the packaging
  branch?

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