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[Chris Coulson <chrisccoulson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 13:43 -0200, Celso Providelo wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:27 AM, hanbin973 <hanbin973@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I want to know why my files were rejected.. If there is a problem, where
> > I need to fix it? This is the first time that I'm uploading to PPA...
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I can help you, *don't panic!*.
> 
> You source upload is being rejected with the following reason:
> 
> {{{
> 2009-01-15 13:30:08 WARNING Upload was rejected:
> 2009-01-15 13:30:08 WARNING     xsane_0.996-1.dsc: Section 'unknown'
> is not valid
> 2009-01-15 13:30:08 WARNING     xsane_0.996.orig.tar.gz: Section
> 'unknown' is not valid
> 2009-01-15 13:30:08 WARNING     xsane_0.996-1.diff.gz: Section
> 'unknown' is not valid
> 2009-01-15 13:30:08 WARNING     Further error processing not possible
> because of a critical previous error.
> }}}
> 
> That's because your .changes file has:
> 
> {{{
> Files:
>  bca5faec065f63ff9f0211019dc093a9 1065 unknown extra xsane_0.996-1.dsc
>  10ab4a43e7af0c97c88a014c41523b44 3309347 unknown extra xsane_0.996.orig.tar.gz
>  d90a3fdedcd23c5eaf34e42262c56be0 12565 unknown extra xsane_0.996-1.diff.gz
> }}}
> 
> which is clearly wrong, since this section doesn't exist.
> 
> Fix this by setting something else than 'Section: unknown' in your
> debian/control file. What about setting 'Section: graphics' as the
> ubuntu package does ?
> 
> I hope it helps, thanks for using Launchpad PPAs.
> 
> []

For a list of valid sections, please refer to section 2.4 of the Debian
Policy manual [1].

Regards
Chris Coulson

[1]http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-subsections

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