Feedback on merging via bzr

[James Westby]

On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:38:20 -0500 (EST), "Scott Kitterman" <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> Then maybe the description of what is happening just needs to be improved
> because as I said in the bug, it sure appears to be looking upstream and
> getting the tarball from there before it checks Debian.  I understand the
> theory, it isn't clear to me that's what's happening.

Both of you are correct.

pristine-tar is supposed to make the problems go away, but it isn't
perfect. When it doesn't work bzr-builddeb will try some other methods
to grab the tarball, but I didn't think to try Debian explicitly (if you
have deb-src lines for debian in your sources.list it should work). I
intend to add this feature when I get a little time, or I would happily
help someone else add it.

Thanks,

James