[PSA] When uploading to Ubuntu, use SSH, not FTP

[Simon Quigley]

Hello,

There is currently some slight flakiness with the FTP server accepting uploads, 
for both PPAs and upload.ubuntu.com. The Launchpad team indicated on IRC that 
they're looking into it.

That being said, those issues don't currently affect SSH uploads. It's generally 
a good idea to do SSH-based uploads regardless:
  - Instead of `dput ubuntu your_source.changes`, try `ssh-ubuntu` in place of 
`ubuntu`
  - Instead of e.g. `dput ppa:lubuntu-dev/backports-staging 
your_source.changes`, use `dput ssh-ppa:lubuntu-dev/backports-staging 
your_source.changes`
  - Also, if you're a DD, try `ssh-upload` instead of `ftp-master` or `ftp-eu`

Note, your SSH key has to be in Launchpad for this to work, and you may need to 
manually specify your Launchpad username in the configuration if it's different 
from your machine username.

Here's some example config stanzas, for your /etc/dput.cf:

[ssh-upload]
login                   = tsimonq2
fqdn                    = ssh.upload.debian.org
method                  = scp
incoming                = /srv/upload.debian.org/UploadQueue/
allow_dcut              = 1
allowed_distributions   = (?!UNRELEASED|.*-security)

[ssh-ubuntu]
fqdn                    = upload.ubuntu.com
method                  = sftp
incoming                = /ubuntu
login                   = *

[ssh-ppa]
fqdn                    = ppa.launchpad.net
method                  = sftp
incoming                = ~%(ssh-ppa)s
login                   = *

I hope this helps,
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Simon Quigley
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