We have some packages having debian/ only directory and not set to lp:ubuntu/<package_name>. It's the case for most of ubuntu-desktop package and some other packages where dx is upstreamed.
People contributing to ubuntu will follow http://people.canonical.com/~dholbach/packaging-guide/html/udd-intro.html#getting-the-source and so, propose the patch against the wrong branch. See here an example: https://code.launchpad.net/~amoog/ubuntu/oneiric/libqtbamf/lp-765915/+merge/65132
I discussed about launchpad automatically taking Vcs-Bzr in my last patch pilot report: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2011-June/033449.html However, it seems that for debian/ only packaging branch, it's not suited to set it them.
Can then the packaging guide suggest to check debcheckout or something else like Vcs-Bzr to check which branch is actually the packaging branch?
> Can then the packaging guide suggest to check debcheckout or something else like Vcs-Bzr to check which branch is actually the packaging branch?
That's the case for desktop packages, but not most of universe. There are packages with Vcs-Bzr pointing at alioth (I maintain a couple of those).
We discussed this in #ubuntu-devel the other night:
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Either we need to:
1. mangle Vcs fields, so only Ubuntu-specific Vcs-Bzr fields remain,
2. use XS-Ubuntu-Vcs-Bzr, fallback to UDD,
3. use Vcs-Bzr when "ubuntu" is in the version, fallback to UDD,
4. look for "ubuntu" in Vcs-Bzr, fallback to UDD, or
5. combine 2 with 3 or 4
1. requires no tool changes.
1 and 2 but wouldn't be usable until every desktop package was updated.
2, 3, 4 and 5 require patching debcheckout / another tool (pull-lp-source could be taught to do this)
I don't think the packaging guide should be updated until a choice is taken here.