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how to use PPA

Asked by Larry Jordan

    Hi. I set up a PPA on my home page and have been trying to upload a debian package I did to it. The package is a neat little game I haven't been able to find anywhere for Ubuntu, but it keeps getting rejected. Latest rej message says 'unknown' for everything. I'm wondering if I am supposed to receive a new key to use for uploads now based on the PPA info page, but it's been since yesterday and I haven't received one. Any ideas otherwise?

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Soul-Sing (soulzing) said : 		#1

: https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA
is this helpful?

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Larry Jordan (larryjor) said : 		#2

     Naw, I read all that over several times trying to figure it out. My latest guess from that page is that maybe I'm supposed to receive & use a SPECIAL gpg key to sign packages for uploading, but it's just a guess. It's based on an email I got listing the files I had sent and referring to each of them as unknown, which might be the case if it didn't expect my to use my own gpg. If it helps, email I got was:

Rejected:
missile_1.0.1.dsc: Unknown section 'unknown'
missile_1.0.1.tar.gz: Unknown section 'unknown'
missile_1.0.1_i386.deb: Unknown section 'unknown'
Further error processing not possible because of a critical previous error.

     I've looked through EACH of the files briefly and can't find any 'unknown' anywhere, so don't know what to do. I went through several other problems, including figuring out how to sign software and how to upload, before that. So still a bit lost on what I'm doing wrong.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#3

Maybe this helps.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Packaging/Training/Logs/2009-05-07

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Larry Jordan (larryjor) said : 		#4

      Eventually figured out the problem and got this done; still need to work on packaging for debian files. Can't even remember anymore how I overcame the problem, but thanks to both of you for help.