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

[Max Bowsher <maxb@xxxxxxx>]

On 09/02/10 10:20, Oded Arbel wrote:
> 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 you diffed from A to B and applied the resulting patch to A? Well 
that just gives you a result identical to B :-)  So you just have the 
same package back again.

> 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.

I strongly suggest not giving your own packages versions which could be 
used in Ubuntu itself in the future - you'll confuse yourself and others.

Instead you should call your package 1.6.4-2ubuntu4.1ppa1 .

> 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,

Unless you override it, the .changes file always just gets the last 
changelog entry.

> and when I try to upload it, I get the "RELEASE pocket" error again.
>
> What am I doing wrong and how to fix it?

Look at the upload target named in the top line of debian/changelog. It 
will currently say "karmic-updates" because dch carried forward the one 
from the previous entry.

However all uploads to PPAs should be to a bare distro name, i.e. 
"karmic". Change that, and it will work.

Max.