Comment 4 for bug 609186

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James Westby (james-w) wrote : Re: [Bug 609186] Re: Really easy branching of Ubuntu packages

On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:42:42 -0000, Barry Warsaw <email address hidden> wrote:
> I have a branch at the project bzr-debuntu which adds ubuntu: and
> debian: urls (along with u: and d: shortcuts, as well as nice shortcuts
> for the distroseries). After chatting with James W, we agreed to merge
> it into bzr-bd, which I'm about to do. The changes are pretty simple;
> they actually call the lp_directory module to return the equivalent lp:
> branches). However, do you think having the debian: and d: schemes that
> make to Launchpad urls are too confusing when there's a deb: scheme with
> different semantics?
>
> OTOH, I can't think of anything other than debian: for this.

I agree, it is confusing, but I have no idea what else we would use.

Perhaps we could rename deb:, but I'm not sure what we would call that
either. Perhaps ask Jelmer, as he wrote it and uses it.

Thanks,

James