[Bug 1340130] [NEW] support new multi-distribution PPA upload path

[Colin Watson]

Public bug reported:

Since http://bazaar.launchpad.net/+branch/launchpad/revision/17093,
Launchpad has supported a new form for the PPA upload path,
~<person>/<distro>/<ppa>.  This helps with some prior ambiguities and so
works better with non-Ubuntu PPAs, which we're going to need for the
Ubuntu phone RTM project in a month or two.  However, it clashes with
the current contents of dput.cf, namely "~%(ppa)s/ubuntu"; if you try to
upload to ppa:~person/ubuntu/ppa-name, then this expands to
~person/ubuntu/ppa-name/ubuntu and goes wrong.

We can reasonably safely drop the trailing "/ubuntu" here.  Uploading to
ppa:~person/ppa-name still works fine.  The only casualty is that
uploading to ppa:~person will fail rather than expanding to the PPA
named "ppa" for that person; however, multiple PPAs have been a thing
for many years now, so I think most people have got used to specifying
the PPA name.  If not, it's an easy adjustment to make.

As well as fixing this in utopic, I think we should SRU this back to
trusty to support people doing phone development there.  Given the
audience it's probably not necessary to update earlier releases.

** Affects: dput (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
     Assignee: Colin Watson (cjwatson)
         Status: Fix Committed

** Affects: dput (Ubuntu Trusty)
     Importance: High
     Assignee: Colin Watson (cjwatson)
         Status: In Progress

** Also affects: dput (Ubuntu Trusty)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: dput (Ubuntu Trusty)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson (cjwatson)

** Changed in: dput (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson (cjwatson)

** Changed in: dput (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: dput (Ubuntu Trusty)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: dput (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Changed in: dput (Ubuntu Trusty)
       Status: New => Triaged

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Title:
  support new multi-distribution PPA upload path

Status in “dput” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in “dput” source package in Trusty:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Since http://bazaar.launchpad.net/+branch/launchpad/revision/17093,
  Launchpad has supported a new form for the PPA upload path,
  ~<person>/<distro>/<ppa>.  This helps with some prior ambiguities and
  so works better with non-Ubuntu PPAs, which we're going to need for
  the Ubuntu phone RTM project in a month or two.  However, it clashes
  with the current contents of dput.cf, namely "~%(ppa)s/ubuntu"; if you
  try to upload to ppa:~person/ubuntu/ppa-name, then this expands to
  ~person/ubuntu/ppa-name/ubuntu and goes wrong.

  We can reasonably safely drop the trailing "/ubuntu" here.  Uploading
  to ppa:~person/ppa-name still works fine.  The only casualty is that
  uploading to ppa:~person will fail rather than expanding to the PPA
  named "ppa" for that person; however, multiple PPAs have been a thing
  for many years now, so I think most people have got used to specifying
  the PPA name.  If not, it's an easy adjustment to make.

  As well as fixing this in utopic, I think we should SRU this back to
  trusty to support people doing phone development there.  Given the
  audience it's probably not necessary to update earlier releases.

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