PPA rejection

Asked by GioEnas

Hi everybody
After trying upload my source code I got this message on the reply email:
Rejected:
Unable to find distroseries: unstable
How can I solve the problem ?
Regards
Gianni Enas

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Max Bowsher (maxb) said :
#1

"unstable" is not an Ubuntu distroseries. Use the correct name for the Ubuntu distroseries you want the package to build for.

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GioEnas (gio-enas) said :
#2

Hi
The problem is that the package was already uploaded and accepted at ftp.master.debian in debian and there is a bug traced at:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=637689
I should upload the new issue with the bug correction, someone suggested to me to upload to PPA, now to change the distroseries I shall change the debian/control file and I guess is not a good Idea, it will not fit the debian build machine. Any other suggestion?
Regards
Gianni Enas

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Best Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) said :
#3

You need to add a new changelog entry (not control file) that targets the upload to a valid Ubuntu series.

use dch -i

and then replace the "unstable" with the Ubuntu series you want to upload to.

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GioEnas (gio-enas) said :
#4

Thanks Julian
I changed the changelog entry and I uploaded an Ubuntu lucid version
Bye
Gianni Enas

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Pavel-II (dzy4) said :
#5

I understand this is happening, if distribution is updated to the pre release version.
I have just now such a situation.

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu precise (development branch)"

and:
$ cat ../cam_0.0.1-1_amd64.changes | grep Distribution:
Distribution: unstable

discussed several times:

https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+questions?field.search_text=Unable+to+find+distroseries%3A+unstable&field.sort=RELEVANCY&field.sort-empty-marker=1&field.actions.search=Search&field.language=en&field.language=ru&field.language-empty-marker=1&field.status=OPEN&field.status=NEEDSINFO&field.status=ANSWERED&field.status=SOLVED&field.status-empty-marker=1

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Laura Czajkowski (czajkowski) said :
#6

@ Rich please do not start on a closed question, please create a new question for your issue. Thanks

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Sergey Ponomarev (stokito) said :
#7

When building a package in PPA from git sources with a build recipe the problem doesn't occur and published packages are set with the distro that it was built for.