Could PPAs accept <distro>-proposed pockets?

[Dave Walker]

On 14 December 2012 13:50, Andreas Hasenack <andreas at canonical.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I tend to use PPAs to test-build my packages before I upload to
> proposed for SRUs.
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> PPAs are very convenient for this. I get to test the build and it also
> makes the packages available for me in a repository.
>
> Problem is, I tend to forget to adjust the changelog line from, say,
> "precise-proposed" to "precise" before uploading to the PPA, and then
> I get this rejection email:
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> Rejected:
> PPA uploads must be for the RELEASE pocket.
>
> Would it be possible to make the PPAs accept these <distro>-proposed
> uploads? Maybe mangle them into <distro> on-the-fly or something?

What is in the changelog doesn't necessarily need to be the same as
what is in the *.changes file, which Launchpad will interpret.
Therefore, you can put precise-proposed in the debian/changelog, but
allow it to be accepted for a PPA by building a source package with:

$ debuild -S -sa --changes-option=-DDistribution=precise

Naturally, it might make sense to alias this :)

HTH

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Kind Regards,
Dave Walker