Unable to specify a different debian/ location to "bzr builddeb"

[Dražen Lučanin]

I'm trying to build the package from this source code:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~cooperjona/lightread/master/files

where the debian/ folder isn't in the repo's root, but in Ubuntu/debian. I can't seem to find a way to specify this different path to the command

    bzr builddeb

Even if I cd to Ubuntu/ or specify "--build-dir Ubuntu" it still throws

    bzr: ERROR: Could not find changelog at /home/kermit/projekti/bzr/drugi/lightread/trunk/debian/changelog in tree.

Using dpkg-buildpackage I am able to build the package by simply cd-ing to Ubuntu. Something like this should be possible in bzr-builddeb as well (or at least specifying this alt. path via some optional flag).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: bzr-builddeb 2.8.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-23.34-generic 3.8.11
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jun 18 20:40:44 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-20 (149 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: bzr-builddeb
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-05-05 (44 days ago)

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

This is a case that is fundamentally not well supported by Debian tools; how do you build this way with e.g. debuild ?