I have always found the source code browser of Launchpad extremely useful when I need to link to packaging code in an answer. The URL pattern is simple enough (https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/<package>) that I can often just replace the last word after typing code in my address bar. But, of late, I have found that it's been increasingly inconsistent to find the actual packaging code.
For example:
- GDM - there's nothing newer than 15.10 (wily) there. But it's clear from the changelog that packaging code has changed since then.
- Bash - this is interesting. There's a link to Git repositories on Launchpad in that page, and there you can see packaging for newer releases. Similarly for apt, bash, git, grub2, ....
Note that there's no Git repositories listed for GDM packaging. Others like GDM: bazaar itself, LightDM, zsh, Chromium, ...
Where did all that packaging code go?
Note that I don't want to download the packaging code, I have apt-get source for that. I don't want to browse the software source code, I'd look outside LP for that (unless, of course, the software is developed on LP). I want to browse the packaging code for Ubuntu online, and be able to link to it. For Debian, I can usually dig up the packaging on Alioth.
