How do I upload an updated package to my PPA without having Quickly mess it up?
As part of Ubuntu App Showdown I received comments on deb packaging (as maybe all other participants). Those can be easy fixed and I spotted them before, but debian packaging files are managed by Quickly.
So the question is: How to build and upload to the PPA updated package, without being mangled by Quickly?
Quickly also increments version on release and rebuilds .pot translation strings file. How can we achieve this without Quickly?
The only way to do that is to not use quickly submitubuntu to upload, or even invoke quickly in any way after you have made manual changes.
To "build" and upload the "updated" package to your PPA:
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Enter your top-level source directory
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Type:
debuild -S -sa -
The sources (not binaries!) for your package will be prepared. Enter your GPG passphrase when prompted to sign.
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cd .., and you should see a file in the form of:packagename_revision_source.changes
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Upload this to your desired ppa with:
dput ppa:launchpad-username/ppa-name packagename_revision_source.changes