build-from-branch into the primary archive

[Robert Collins]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Loïc Minier <loic.minier at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> Perhaps a reasonable middle ground would be some new X-USE-UDD field (pick a
>> better name please) in debian/control and a changet to dput that would either
>> ask an "are you sure y/N" question or require -f to upload.  That way it could
>> be set without needed any changes on the launchpad end.
>
>  Actually I liked Steve Langasek's approach of putting the UDD branch in
>  Vcs-Bzr when the UDD branch is used to stage UNRELEASED changes
>
>  (We usually don't but lp:ubuntu URLs in Vcs-Bzr because it's kind of
>  implicit that we have this branch in every package, but there is not
>  way to tell whether the UDD branch is in use or not; listing it
>  explicitly when it's used solves this)

Perhaps making the resolution behaviour when someone uses dput better
would be sufficient to avoid this sort of extra configuration?