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[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <a.starr.b@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is really a pet peeve of mine. It's also not uncommon to look at
the sponsorship queue and see new contributors getting asked to rebase
their changes on the desktop team (or whoever's) branch. We can probably
make it a little more clear in the docs, but as Stefano notes this is
really an issue with our tools/processes. I really wish the debcheckout
(or maybe an Ubuntu specific tool) would "just work."

Perhaps this is something we need to discuss at UDS. I assume there will
be some sort of UDD health check session.

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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:
  Confirmed

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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