Comment 6 for bug 609186

Hi Barry!

Nice to see these two extra aliases.

As these locations would be the canonical locations for Ubuntu packages I agree "ubuntu:" is appropriate for the Ubuntu packages. I think using "debian:" for the Debian packages is confusing. E.g. "debian:samba4" on Debian systems would fetch from Launchpad while the primary branch is hosted on alioth and has a completely different revision history. Contributors can only submit bundles against the branch on alioth. What about something like "lp-debian:"?

"vcs:" might be confusing on e.g. Fedora systems with bzr installed. Perhaps "apt:" or "apt-vcs:" ?

Using single letters for Debian releases is a bad idea imho, there is some overlap there (e.g. sid and squeeze, etch and experimental) that is only confusing.

Just a thought; Given these add directory services are specific to Launchpad and don't rely on anything else in builddeb it seems to me that the Launchpad plugin would be a more appropriate place for them. That way people not using bzr-builddeb would also be able to use them, and they are less prone to break because of changes in bzrlib.plugins.launchpad.