[08:01] <dholbach> good morning
[17:46] <ESphynx> good morning
[17:48] <reversiblean> Hi.. How do I find the active development branch of a project?
[17:48] <reversiblean> For example lp:ubuntu/zipper.app and lp:ubuntu/vivid-proposed/zipper.app
[17:48] <reversiblean> Which one should I pull?
[17:50] <mitya57> reversiblean, these two branches are identical
[17:51] <mitya57> reversiblean, also, this package comes from Debian, so you may want to use git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-gnustep/zipper.app.git instead
[17:51] <mitya57> (this is where packaging actually happens)
[17:52] <reversiblean> mitya57: thanks for the info. but how do i distinguish between Ubuntu vs Debian packages?
[17:53] <reversiblean> mitya57: and what would happen if i commit any changes to the branch on launchpad?
[17:53] <mitya57> reversiblean, if you open https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zipper.app and expand the first entry, it will say "Copied from debian sid in Primary Archive for Debian GNU/Linux"
[17:54] <mitya57> reversiblean, you probably don't have rights to commit directly to lp:ubuntu/zipper.app (that is for robots, not for humans), but nothing prevents you from creating your own clone of that branch
[17:57] <reversiblean> mitya57: ohhh, thanks a lot. BTW did you Google to find that debina branch?
[17:58] <reversiblean> *debian
[17:59] <mitya57> No, https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/zipper.app shows you the links to VCS
[17:59] <mitya57> Also, "debcheckout PACKAGENAME" will automatically clone the right branch for you
[18:02] <reversiblean> mitya57: i see. I think i'll better learn to contribute to debian first since i'm very new. Thanks a lot!
[18:22] <reversiblean> mitya57: lets say i want to change the url 'Developer's Website', that appears on the Ubuntu Software Center for a package after i clone it. Which file should I look into?
[18:22] <mitya57> reversiblean, Homepage field in debian/control
[18:23] <reversiblean> mitya57: lets say i want to fix the bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zipper.app/+bug/1406394, and I already clone the repo using git
[18:25] <reversiblean> mitya57: i checked the Homepage field on the debian/control, but its different from the url as stated in the bug report
[18:25] <mitya57> Let me look
[18:26] <mitya57> reversiblean, the link in software center opens http://gap.nongnu.org/zipper/ for me
[18:26] <mitya57> which looks correct
[18:28] <mitya57> git shows that before June 2012 the URL was http://xanthippe.dyndns.org/Zipper/, which matches what's described in the bug
[18:28] <reversiblean> mitya57: is already fixed?
[18:28] <mitya57> so maybe the reporter was using an old Ubuntu release
[18:28] <mitya57> I guess it is fixed, yes
[18:28] <reversiblean> mitya57: i'm on 14.10
[18:29] <mitya57> And do you have this bug?
[18:29] <reversiblean> mitya57: yup
[18:29] <mitya57> Oh, I see there was no upload between June 2012 and July 2014
[18:30] <mitya57> So it's fixed in 15.04 but not in 14.10
[18:30] <mitya57> Of course we can backport the fix to utopic-updates, but I personally don't think it's worth it
[18:31] <mitya57> (But if you want to fix it, follow the SRU process, and we will accept your patches :))
[18:34] <reversiblean> mitya57: so much to learn : ) I'll see