Could PPAs accept <distro>-proposed pockets?

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:50:40AM -0200, Andreas Hasenack wrote:
> I tend to use PPAs to test-build my packages before I upload to
> proposed for SRUs.
> 
> 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,
[...]
> Would it be possible to make the PPAs accept these <distro>-proposed
> uploads? Maybe mangle them into <distro> on-the-fly or something?

Consider the other way round instead: just use "precise" as the target
for all your precise-related uploads, whether to the primary archive or
to PPAs.  For the last couple of months, Launchpad has auto-rewritten a
bare <series> to <series>-proposed for all uploads to the primary
archive.  We haven't laid down any kind of standard, but it's fine to
use this for SRUs if you wish.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]