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This page describes the requirements for uploading to PPAs, or rather to multiple distributions at once. It is a work in progress.

autoppa is prior art that should be looked at for inspiration.

Requirements

• Alter the version number for each distribution so that they
  • don't clash and there can be an upgrade path.
• Upload the source to launchpad.
• Be able to tweak for older distributions that e.g. don't have a new enough debhelper.

Current steps

• Change the version number, usually using tildes, the release name, and some other string, often "ppa".
• Change the distribution target.
  • - These steps can either modify the last changelog stanza, or create a new one.
• Perhaps tweak the packaging for older releases.
• Build the source package.
• Upload the source package to the PPA.

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