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

Ya, but I really am uncertain about the point of this whole thing. This is a native package. The "latest upstream source tarball" is what will be uploaded. With a native package, there should be no difference between the latest "upstream" and the current distro package. They are the same thing. There is no other tarball! Yet the archive-admins have decided that "native or not, people need to be able to verify the integrity of a source package from some upstream source." I don't know why this rule applies to this package and not the many others that are native, Ubuntu-only packages (including those accepted this cycle like say ubuntu-drivers-common) that do not have watch files, get-orig-source targets, or README.source files.

Sorry for the ranting, now for a real question. =) Is there a better way to determine the latest tag (not revision) in a bzr branch and export that than parsing `bzr tags`? (BTW: I'm off to file a bug on there being not `bzr help tag`)
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