values for distroseries in changelog

Asked by Benjamin Plocek

I want to upload a package which should work on all debian versions and already tried it with 'all', but this has been rejected with "Unable to find distroseries: all".

Do I really have to build the package for each Ubuntu version? Or is there any other keyword like 'all'?

And: What's the distroseries value for Debian releases? And for Linux-Mint releases? Would be great if you could provide a list of all supported distroseries on help.launchpad.net.

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Best William Grant (wgrant) said :
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Due to the nature of Debian package archives, a package can only be built once with a particular version. Since packages often need to be rebuilt between series it's impossible to target multiple series in the changelog, but if the same binaries work for multiple series then you can copy them to other series after the package has built. See https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/BuildingASourcePackage#Versioning for more details.

Launchpad PPAs build only for Ubuntu. We don't currently support building Debian or Linux Mint packages. That's bug #188564.

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Benjamin Plocek (benhub) said :
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Thanks William Grant, that solved my question.