On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 12:10 +0000, Max Bowsher wrote: > So you diffed from A to B and applied the resulting patch to A? Well > that just gives you a result identical to B :-) So you just have the > same package back again.
I'm not very familiar with the deb based build system (I'm originally from an RPM background ;-) ). I was assuming that the build system - or maybe the PPA system - cares if I patched from 4.1 to 4.2 or directly from 4.0 to 4.2. Obviously that was silly. > I strongly suggest not giving your own packages versions which could be > used in Ubuntu itself in the future - you'll confuse yourself and others. > > Instead you should call your package 1.6.4-2ubuntu4.1ppa1 . I changed it to what you suggested. > > and when I try to upload it, I get the "RELEASE pocket" error again. > Look at the upload target named in the top line of debian/changelog. It > will currently say "karmic-updates" because dch carried forward the one > from the previous entry. > > However all uploads to PPAs should be to a bare distro name, i.e. > "karmic". Change that, and it will work. Thanks, that did the trick :-) -- Oded Arbel <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
