Having to adjust gbp.conf when going from debian/sid to
debian/experimental and back isn't helpful. It would be better if we'd
drive the debian branch from the changelog and:

* don't complain about not matching branches if the entry is UNRELEASED
* complain if the current branch doesn't match the distribution in the
  changelog

Does this make sense?

I think this (and #829444) could be technically implemented by adding a
substitution variable, "release" or such and defaulting the branches to
debian/%(release)s etc.

I’m also thinking detecting the branch format automatically could also
be useful (master or %(release)s + upstream or debian/master or
debian/%(release)s + upstream/*).

Hi,

i'd be happy to see patches for this.
 -- Guido