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

[Oded Arbel <oded@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 12:10 +0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
> 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.

I'm not very familiar with the deb based build system (I'm originally
from an RPM background ;-) ). I was assuming that the build system - or
maybe the PPA system - cares if I patched from 4.1 to 4.2 or directly
from 4.0 to 4.2. Obviously that was silly.

> 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 .

I changed it to what you suggested.

> > and when I try to upload it, I get the "RELEASE pocket" error again.

> 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.

Thanks, that did the trick :-)

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Oded Arbel <oded@xxxxxxxxxx>