[Launchpad-users] dput problem: PPA uploads must be for the RELEASE pocket

[Oded Arbel <oded@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi people.

This has probably came up in the past, but a web search has failed to produce any solutions for me:

I want to patch a package and upload the new patched package to my PPA (see LP bug #36812 for details about the patch). I downloaded the current source release from karmic-updates, patched it, build it using pbuilder and ran 'dput my-ppa target/*.changes', which completed successfully.

I then got an email saying the the package was rejected because "PPA uploads must be for the RELEASE pocket." As far as I understand (from an IRC log that Google found for me) its because I based my changes on a package from karmic-updates and not from the karmic release repository. So I went and got the source package from the karmic release repo, then did a debdiff against my new source package (after I already patched it), and applied the patch to the karmic release package.

So now I got this in the source directory:
xorg-server-1.6.4                         
xorg-server_1.6.4.orig.tar.gz
xorg-server_1.6.4-2ubuntu4.dsc
xorg-server_1.6.4-2ubuntu4.diff.gz
xorg-server_1.6.4-2ubuntu4.2.dsc                
xorg-server_1.6.4-2ubuntu4.2_amd64.build  
xorg-server_1.6.4-2ubuntu4.2_source.changes     
xorg-server_1.6.4-2ubuntu4.2.diff.gz      
xorg-server_1.6.4-2ubuntu4.2_source.ppa.upload  

2ubuntu4 is the release package, 2ubuntu4.1 is the package from karmic-updates and when I ran 'dch -n' it created 2ubuntu4.2 for me. Now even though the original dsc is for 2ubuntu4, after I pdebuild the source with my patches (containing both the 4.1 patch from updates as well as my patch) the source.changes file only has the changes from my patch, and when I try to upload it, I get the "RELEASE pocket" error again.

What am I doing wrong and how to fix it?

Thanks in advance,
-- 
Oded

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