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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Packaging Guide Team, which is subscribed to Ubuntu Packaging Guide. 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? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-packaging-guide/+bug/800768/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-packaging-guide-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-packaging-guide-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
