Comment 1 for bug 772225

With the latest changes in trunk the errors have gone away, but the command still doesn't work correctly (at least not as I would expect):

$ bzr init hello && cd hello
$ bzr merge-upstream ../hello-2.7.tar.gz --package hello --version 2.7 --distribution natty
Using version string 2.7.
An entry for the new upstream version has been added to the changelog.
$ bzr st
added:
  debian/
unknown:
  debian/changelog
$ ls
debian

The tarball contents aren't included in the branch.