Comment 2 for bug 507741

Re Emmet's comment:

I believe the Ubuntu-local merge is a quick "band-aid" to at least get Debian's and Ubuntu source package names the same. This way the properly named and versioned binaries are built (and don't conflict with each other because they build packages with the same name) and packages that depend on them can build properly without ubuntu diffs. See tiemu, for example. That package requires an ubuntu-local merge because of this bug. Ideally, once this back merge happens, we can sync the depending packages back to their debian sources, then can pass whatever changes or patches needed in the backmerge up to debian. You're right, this bug occured because of a lack of a common shared maintenance model, so we have to put it back on track so that the two can eventually be in sync again.