Patch pilot report 29/02/2012

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio]

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On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Didier Roche
<didier.roche at canonical.com> wrote:
> - the correct vcs wasn't targetted (deskop one for most). Maybe we should a
> tool like debcheckout (which is looking at Vcs-Bzr: or apt-get source if
> nothing) but which look at Vcs-Bzr, or branch ubuntu:<project> branches if
> none. Unfortunatly, the call for help there wasn't stating it. Something to
> make better in the future :)

This has always been an issue with the UDD workflow. It's especially
confusing when an unseeded package has an Ubuntu specific Bzr-Vcs
field. It's been discussed before on the UDD list, and there are a few
relevant bugs:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-distributed-devel/2011-July/000848.html
https://bugs.launchpad.net/udd/+bug/809936
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-packaging-guide/+bug/800768

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