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This process might change.

Prerequisites

1. Install ubuntu-dev-tools from Gutsy.

2. Set up your PPA.

3. Also you need to copy your Launchpad cookie to ~/.lpcookie.

   • Firefox uses ~/.mozilla/firefox/<random>cookies.txt,

   • Epiphany uses ~/.gnome2/epiphany/mozilla/epiphany/cookies.txt.

   • or you can create the cookie using curl (but the password is visible in the process list and the shell history!):

     1. curl -b ~/.lpcookie -c ~/.lpcookie -d loginpage_email=LAUNCHPAD_EMAIL -d loginpage_password=LAUNCHPAD_PASSWORD -d loginpage_submit_login=1 https://edge.launchpad.net/+login
     2. curl -b ~/.lpcookie -c ~/.lpcookie -d loginpage_email=LAUNCHPAD_EMAIL -d loginpage_password=LAUNCHPAD_PASSWORD -d loginpage_submit_login=1 https://launchpad.net/+login

     (both for launchpad.net and edge.launchpad.net, if you're in the beta team)

4. Set DEBEMAIL and DEBFULLNAME in ~/.bashrc, for example:

   export DEBFULLNAME='Daniel Holbach'
   export DEBEMAIL='daniel.holbach@ubuntu.com'

Following up on an already filed bug

1. cd sourcetree-1.2.3

2. add a changelog entry including (LP: #123456) (ClosingBugsFromChangelog)

3. ppaput my-ppa -sa

   will
   • build a source package

   • upload the whole source package (including tarball - -sa option) to the dput location called my-ppa

   • follow up on the bug report
   • subscribe the right people

Filing a new bug

1. cd somenewpackage-1.0.0

2. ppaput -n my-ppa -sa

   will
   • file a new bug

   • add a changelog entry à la (LP: #123456) (ClosingBugsFromChangelog)

   • upload the whole source package (including tarball - -sa option) to the dput location called my-ppa

   • subscribe the right people to the bug

More information on ppaput

• File bugs at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-dev-tools

• UbuntuDevTools

• man ppaput