[Launchpad-users] question on PPA builds

[Olivier Tilloy <olivier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings Launchpad users,

During the past week I've been building in my PPA [1] successive
versions of the same packages for internal pre-release testing purposes.
As requested for the build to succeed, each time I was uploading a new
source package, I bumped the version number (the <n> component in
~karmic1ubuntu<n> at the end of the package name). And that worked fine.

But it happened that the original source tarballs had some changes too
between some of the builds. I assumed they were re-uploaded each time
along with the source packages, so I didn't bother bumping their version
numbers.

And it appears that all the builds were done using the source tarballs
uploaded for the first build, all the subsequent tarballs with the same
version numbers were ignored.

Is that a bug in the build system, or the expected behaviour?
The mail launchpad sends to confirm that a build has been accepted and
is pending is not really clear about it. E.g.:

  Accepted:
   OK: moovida-plugins-ugly_1.0.8.orig.tar.gz
   OK: moovida-plugins-ugly_1.0.8-1fluendo1~ppa1~karmic1ubuntu3.diff.gz
   OK: moovida-plugins-ugly_1.0.8-1fluendo1~ppa1~karmic1ubuntu3.dsc
       -> Component: main Section: gnome

It doesn't mention that the orig.tar.gz file is re-used from previous
builds. The only way for me to notice would be to compare the sha checksums.

In any case, is there a way (other than bumping the version numbers) I
can force uploading the updated source tarballs?

Thanks in advance for your help,

Olivier


[1] https://launchpad.net/~osomon/+archive/ppa