[Bug 1100333] [NEW] [sponsor-patch] Sometimes downloads packages for the wrong release

[Iain Lane]

Public bug reported:

I tried to sponsor an SRU where the bug didn't have a task for the
release being SRUed into. sponsor-patch downloaded the current
development release version of the package and failed to apply the
supplied patch.

I'm not sure what it could have done instead. Some ideas

  - DTRT and download the target release package (thus looking at the changelog provided in the diff instead of the bug), then prompt to add a task for the release (or offer to do it!)
  -  Warned at the start when it sees that the target was wrong (again looking at the changelog)
  - Provide a commandline option to override the target release
  - If the patch fails to apply, simply explain to the user that sponsor-patch requires the bug tasks to be set correctly as a hint as to what might be going wrong.

** Affects: ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  [sponsor-patch] Sometimes downloads packages for the wrong release

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