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[Matthew Revell <matthew.revell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the feedback David!

> I felt that comments like "If you're already familiar with uploading to the Ubuntu primary archive" 
> showed that the emphasis was on people who are already experienced in creating packages and 
> placing them in repos, and that the guide was only for showing such people how to use a PPA.

I'm afraid that, for now, the guide is only for people who are already
with packaging for Ubuntu. That isn't to say that you have to be an
expert packager in order to use PPAs. However, I'm not sure that the PPA
documentation should try to copy what's already available in the Ubuntu
packaging guide.

I suppose the tricky part is finding the balance! I take your point on
pointing to sub-tutorials and will look at the best way to deal with
that.

> It's also not clear that although your .deb will be uploaded, it will not appear in your PPA repo. 
> Instead, it seems that a new one will be compiled out of your source code.

I may have misunderstood what you've written here but I think it is
clear that when you upload a source package Launchpad will build then
publish it as a binary.

I've refreshed the PPA guide and put it at its new home:

https://help.launchpad.net/PPA

However, I want to look at this afresh and see if we can do a better job
on introducing packaging to people who have never packaged before,
without replicating the detail of the Ubuntu packaging guide.

Therefore rather than mark this as "Fix released" just yet, I'm going to
leave it as "In progress" and target it to Launchpad's August release
(2.1.8).

** Changed in: launchpad-documentation
       Target: 1.99 => 2.1.8

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