Choice of short names makes it easy to check out a package that matches a series name

[Mathias Gug]

While trying to work on a merge from squeeze in lucid, I ran into the following error:

(l)mathiaz@mathiaz-srv:~/src$ bzr init-repo python-boto
cShared repository with trees (format: 2a)
Location:
  shared repository: python-boto
(l)mathiaz@mathiaz-srv:~/src$ cd python-boto/
(l)mathiaz@mathiaz-srv:~/src/python-boto$ bzr co lp:ubuntu/lucid/python-boto lucid

(l)mathiaz@mathiaz-srv:~/src/python-boto$
(l)mathiaz@mathiaz-srv:~/src/python-boto$ bzr co lp:ubuntu/squeeze/python-boto squeeze
(l)mathiaz@mathiaz-srv:~/src/python-boto$ ls
lucid squeeze
(l)mathiaz@mathiaz-srv:~/src/python-boto$ cd lucid/
(l)mathiaz@mathiaz-srv:~/src/python-boto/lucid$ bzr diff -rancestor:../squeeze/
bzr: ERROR: Revisions have no common ancestor: <email address hidden> <email address hidden>
(l)mathiaz@mathiaz-srv:~/src/python-boto/lucid$ cd ../squeeze/
(l)mathiaz@mathiaz-srv:~/src/python-boto/squeeze$ bzr diff -rancestor:../lucid/
bzr: ERROR: Revisions have no common ancestor: <email address hidden> <email address hidden>
(l)mathiaz@mathiaz-srv:~/src/python-boto/squeeze$

[Mathias Gug (mathiaz)]

User error - I checked out the squeeze *package* instead of the python-boto package.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

 status new

Actually, I think this highlights an issue with the URL magic that has
been done for distro packages.

Specifically:

lp:ubuntu/distrorelease/packageX -> gets packageX
lp:ubuntu/packagenamewhichisdebianreleasename/packageX gets the subdir
packageX under the package packagenamewhichisdebianreleasename

and an interesting question is 'what does lp:debian/squeeze/bzr' resolve
to. The branch 'bzr of the package squeeze in sid', or 'the default
branch of the package squeeze in squeeze' ?

-Rob