How do I create a Debian branch for my project on Launchpad?

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Published on 2012-06-18T16:09:58Z Indexed on 2012/06/18 21:24 UTC
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I have a project on Launchpad that consists of a single branch (trunk). I would like to create a second branch that contains the Debian packaging for the project (with the intent of creating a build recipe that merges it into the main branch before building).

I've done this before by just pushing a local branch to lp:~me/project_name/debian. However, this stacks the branch with trunk, which I don't want (it becomes impossible to delete trunk without deleting the Debian packaging branch - a restriction that has caused problems before).

What is the proper way to do this?

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