Advice on set up/maintain Launchpad PPAs

[James Michael Fultz]

* Andrew Farris <flyindragon1 at aol.com> [2010-03-11 01:38 -0600]:
> This may not be the best place to ask, but does anybody here have
> experience setting up/maintaining PPAs on Launchpad?

I have a PPA containing one package.

> I'm trying to set up a personal PPA right now to start uploading
> packages I've been creating so that others can benefit... I've been
> reading lots of documentation, such as: 
> https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/Uploading
> https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/BuildingASourcePackage
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide
> etc...
> but everything I've been reading is a little overwhelming, and mostly
> applies to uploading packages that require building from source... I,
> OTOH, am probably only going to be uploading Python programs... What I
> could really use right now is some pointers from somebody who's used
> Launchpad's PPA service before to help me get started.

The package in my PPA is a Python application; I for the most part
followed the following guide:
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Python>

Binary packages are built from source packages, and even pure Python
applications require a source package.  If you've created some packages,
you may have little more to do than upload them to your PPA.