PPA and packaging 101

[Neal McBurnett]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 01:12:15PM -0700, Jordan Mantha wrote:
> How about 15:00-16:00 UTC on Thursday? What topics are do people seem
> to be having problems with? What topics should be covered?

Thanks for doing this!  I'm sorry I'll be on the road and will miss
it.  So here is some input from a real live newbie :-)

This is what I ran into, mostly surprise at how the submission process
works.

 Mechanics are odd: important details picked up by parsing changelog!
  Including your email address for getting confirmation [check this]
  Seems to require publication of your email address, no option for
  OpenId or the like.
 Upload process doesn't confirm clean upload
 Signature must be right [check what the consequences are]
 No notification when build succeeds
 Pitfalls: not finding right email, bad pgp signature, changelog syntax, 
  MD5 sum of uploaded file does not match existing file in archive =>
  must have different version for each repository!
 Can't delete packages yet

I also submitted https://bugs.launchpad.net/soyuz/+bug/136593
about it.  I've since gotten my email and builds to work, so I need to
update that, but I do wonder if a cleaner submission process would be
in order.

Cheers,

Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/