using UDD all the time

[Allison Randal]

As I was working on packages this week, I wondered if there might be a
way to use all the great UDD tools/techniques on packages even when the
importer failed and there is no up-to-date bzr branch available in
launchpad.

I noticed at the bottom of the UDD Intro page that there's a technique
given to create a one-off bzr branch from a Debian .dsc file:

http://people.canonical.com/~dholbach/packaging-guide/html/udd-intro.html

Would that same technique work for Ubuntu packages (*only* where the
import has failed)? Or, is there another simple technique we could
recommend? My idea is that this "local" branch would be discarded once
the import succeeds, it's just a convenience to avoid falling back on
merge-o-matic or a manual merge.

Allison