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From: Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Debianized upstream source branch name
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On Tue, 18 Nov 2025 at 08:00, Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 10:20:39PM -0300, Aeliton G. Silva wrote:

<snip>

> >I was having a look at the python-lsp-server repository and the branch
> >debian/main does not exist whilst debian/master does.
>
> Yes, you need to look at the branches to find which is the debian-branch
> one.

If in doubt, always check to see if debian/gbp.conf exists and what
debian-branch is set to.

In the case of python-lsp-server [0], it shows:

[DEFAULT]
upstream-branch = upstream
debian-branch = debian/master


Cheers,
Nick

[0] https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-lsp-server/-/blob/debian/master/debian/gbp.conf