Please address the issues with your Ubuntu App Showdown Submission to qualify for the contest

[prasannatsmkumar]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:14 PM, David Planella
<david.planella at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Al 10/07/12 18:35, En/na prasannatsmkumar ha escrit:
>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 6:12 PM, David Planella
>> <david.planella at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm contacting you because you have stated interest in participating in
>>> the Ubuntu App Showdown.
>>>
>>> Your application is missing something in order to qualify for the
>>> contest, and we would appreciate that you could address the issue listed
>>> below asap.
>>>
>>> You've been working hard in your app these last 3 weeks, and we want to
>>> ensure it makes it to the contest, but we need input from you for it to
>>> qualify.
>>>
>>> Please address the issue listed for your app below:
>>>
>>> - The PPA for your app is empty (it contains no packages) or
>>> non-existent. Please upload a package to participate in the contest. If
>>> you've used Quickly to develop your app, you can simply issue the
>>> 'quickly' submitubuntu command. This affects the following submissions:
>>>
>>>   * Share Ubuntu Updates -
>>> https://myapps.developer.ubuntu.com/dev/apps/1264/
>>>   * Nudge - https://myapps.developer.ubuntu.com/dev/apps/1259/
>>>   * Convertik - https://myapps.developer.ubuntu.com/dev/apps/1262/
>>>   * MapRog - https://myapps.developer.ubuntu.com/dev/apps/1238/
>>>   * BorraDos - https://myapps.developer.ubuntu.com/dev/apps/973/
>>>
>>> If you haven't replied to us or addressed the issues in the next 24
>>> hours, your app will not qualify for the contest.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> David.
>>>
>>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> I am very glad to be in touch with Ubuntu team. You guys are doing a
>> great job :).
>>
>
> Well, thanks to you for participating! :-)
>
>> I ran "dput ppa:prasannatsmkumar/ppa
>> share-updates_1.0-1_source.changes" and it uploaded the packages but I
>> did not see any update in my PPA. I also tried "dput
>> ppa:prasannatsmkumar/share-ubuntu-updates
>> share-updates_1.0-1_source.changes" (I replaced prasannatsmkumar/ppa
>> with prasannatsmkumar/share-ubuntu-updates as it is my application
>> name and tried). Both did not work out.
>>
>
> If you are developing a Quickly app, you should use 'quickly submitubuntu'.
>
> If you run into any issues, please follow the troubleshooting guide:
> http://developer.ubuntu.com/2012/07/ubuntu-app-showdown-deadline-approaching-get-your-submissions-ready/
>

Sure. I will check what happens (or goes wrong) with quickly.

>> Today I have uploaded the packages again using the command "dput
>> ppa:prasannatsmkumar/ppa share-updates_1.0-1_source.changes". I hope
>> the command is correct as it is described in
>> https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/Uploading. No errors
>> reported. So I think things went well. Hope the package will be
>> created and available in PPA in some time. (There was no error
>> previously but there was no deb in PPA :( ).
>>
>> It will be great if you could provide some help on the following:
>> 1. The application I created is working in Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04. But
>> my main development machine has only Ubuntu 11.10 and I am uploading
>> the package from here. Will the PPA be created for 12.04 also? I could
>> not see any option to set this as of now. If this does not work out I
>> will re-upload it from another machine having Ubuntu 12.04. Please let
>> me know. My application uses only Qt (libqt4-gui is the main
>> dependency) library.
>>
>
> You simply have to tell Launchpad which version(s) of Ubuntu you'd like
> the PPA build packages for. This might also be useful, as it contains
> links to the PPA documentation too:
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/161436/launchpad-ppa-supporting-multiple-versions-of-ubuntu

Thanks a lot. My changelog file had distro name as 'unstable' instead
of 'precise oneric'. I have modified it to 'precise oneric' (this
should generate .deb for Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04) - I have done this
according to debian documentation. I have also uploaded them using
dput now. I am eagerly waiting for seeing the PPA.

>
>> 2. Running "quickly package" does not work. If I start the command I
>> could see some progress (some dots appear in terminal screen) and
>> after that nothing happens. I waited for more than one hour but
>> nothing happened. Is there any way to resolve this? One of the main
>> reasons for me not to use quickly is this (I did not find time to sort
>> out the issue and I was too lazy - sorry).
>>
>
> I'd suggest following the Quickly packaging troubleshooting FAQ:
> http://askubuntu.com/a/160775/9781

Sure I will look into the quickly stuff.

>> Please let me know the steps that I have to take if my PPA not gets
>> updated with .deb files (I am asking this specifically because it did
>> not show up in last attempt).
>>
>>
>> Thanks and Regards,
>> Prasanna Kumar
>>
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Thanks,
Prasanna Kumar