Advice on set up/maintain Launchpad PPAs

[James Michael Fultz]

* Andrew Farris <flyindragon1 at aol.com> [2010-03-13 02:56 -0600]:
> This launchpad page https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/Uploading
> describes using dput to upload, and states that it uploads 3 files:
> *.dsc, *.changes, and *.diff.gz... that confused me, as that makes it
> sound like I can't upload the *.deb file I've already constructed with
> debhelper/dpkg... is this correct, or do I actually upload the .deb
> package, and dput just *additionally* uploads those other files as well?

Right, you do not upload the deb.  dput uploads the files necessary to
build the deb, and the package will be built automatically on the
server.