submitting an app to ubuntu software center

[Rick Spencer]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com> wrote:
>> Al 14/06/12 14:13, En/na Hamza Abdelkebir ha escrit:
>> > Do you have any tutorial on how to build a PPA?
>
> David Planella writes:
>> In short, you will need to:
>>
>> - Set up a PPA in Launchpad: https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA
>> - Create a package and upload it to the PPA
>> - Update the feedback form on myapps with a comment pointing to the
>> location of your PPA
>>
>> You will also find additional information here:
>>
>>     https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppReviewBoard/Submissions/PPAUploadTips
>
> I had a hard time finding documentation on how to package up a
> Python app and turn it into a Launchpad PPA, and the tools tend
> to spew messages that make you even more confused. So once I figured
> it out, I wrote a pair of howtos. They're Python oriented (you don't
> mention what language your kitchen timer uses), but most of the steps
> should be similar for other languages.
>
> Use stdeb to make Debian packages for a Python package
> (this one is fairly Python-specific):
> http://shallowsky.com/blog/programming/python-debian-packages-w-stdeb.html
>
> Creating packages for a Launchpad PPA:
> http://shallowsky.com/blog/programming/packaging-launchpad-ppas.html
>
> Presumably none of this will be needed once pkgme is ready to go,
> but it might help in the meantime.
>
> Good luck!
>
Also, if you use Quickly to build your app, you just use the command
"quickly release"

Cheers, Rick