Comment 12 for bug 710767

But if the original URI given is lp:~user-id/project/orig-branch, then it should be easy to create the URI for a new branch. My point is that the lp URI is a simpler, yet sufficient, description of the branch location that is more easily introspectable and manipulable. The resolved URL is essentially an implementation detail of the Launchpad interaction. The user doesn't care about the resolved URL. The only thing that does care is the code which actually has to make the connection to the remote branch. Everything else should deal with the lp URI, i.e. the canonical form of the branch location.