Comment 9 for bug 247172

Colin: The recommends is a problem as ubuntu-dev-tools is in Universe. Also it ends up pulling in ~70 more packages. Before reverting this I did look for you on IRC and did not find you. We had a discussion with the author of the patch (on #ubuntu-motu) and he agreed with reverting it. We also talked with cprov and he agreed to extending the dget friendly urls provided for Ubuntu packages to PPA.

If you'd been around I certainly would have discussed it with you, but I felt that because of the large number of additional packages this was going to pull into a lot of people's systems and that the effect of the problem was substantially narrower than reported in the bug reversion was appropriate. I'm certain seeing it was reverted seemed abrupt. My apologies for that.

Karl: I think that the best solution for this for Launchpad to fix it. More discussion below.

If this is important enough to fix (I don't think it is, my suggestion is just wait for Launchpad to resolve the problem with PPA as they have done with distro package) I don't think falling back to dgetlp is the right answer. Looking at dgetlp, it appears that the operative bits that are unique to it are captured in a few lines of shell. My suggestion would be to integrate the fallback to dgetlp directly into dget and make it transparent to the user. If we do that, we can just drop dgetlp from ubuntu-dev-tools.