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I'm using Launchpad to upload a .dsc, a debian.tar.gz and a .orig.tar.xz. The orig archive contains both i386 and amd64 files, and I use debian/rules to build different architecture packages. But it only builds on Trusty series. I would like to use the feature Copy packages, but I want it to be automated.

Currently, I have to connect to Launchpad, click View Package Details, click Copy Packages, and use: 

> Destination PPA:
> This PPA

> Destination series:
> Utopic

> Copy existing binaries

Is there a way to automate all this "copy the existing binaries from the older series to the new series", or to do it through CLI to use it in a script ?

Thank you

Leads :

  • Q: Maybe ubuntu-archive-tools can help me do that, it seem to have a copy-package python script ?

    A: It doesn't work with that: python copy-package -y -b --ppa-name=myname/myppa --to-ppa-name=myname/myppa -s trusty --to-suite=utopic -e versionofpackage

  • Q: Maybe if I change my changelog entry from trusty ; urgency=low to utopic trusty ; urgency=low ?

    A: It doesn't work : Unable to find distroseries: utopic trusty. Further error processing not possible because of a critical previous error.

  • Q: Build 1 orig.tar.xz and multiple .dsc & debian.tar.gz

    A: I currently build an incremented version-number (i.e. mypackage-1.1.0-0trusty0 and mypackage-1.1.0-0utopic0), but the solution could be better since I have to reupload the orig.tar.xz for each and that it takes twice the place in the PPA since the built .deb aren't considered as a copy of each other but 2 packages.

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For the record, you don't have to reupload the orig.tar.xz if you already uploaded it before. Run debuild -sd (or dpkg-build-package -sd) to generate a .changes file that doesn't upload the original tarball. – saiarcot895 Jun 30 '14 at 0:58
    
What error did you get with the first method? – saiarcot895 Jun 30 '14 at 1:07
    
Thanks for the first tip @saiarcot895, I'll use it !! The first method did not output anything, I think it's because --to-suite isn't made for "series" but for something else. I don't know. It seemed to work but nothing changed on my PPA. – MrVaykadji Jun 30 '14 at 14:21
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--to-suite is for the series. I wouldn't specify the -e flag since, by default, the latest version will be chosen. Also, try splitting up --ppa-name=myname/myppa to -p myname --ppa-name=myppa, since --ppa-name just wants the name of the PPA. Also, you don't need to specify --to-* if it's the same thing as the from. – saiarcot895 Jun 30 '14 at 14:24
    
I'll give all that a try, thanks a lot – MrVaykadji Jun 30 '14 at 14:37
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copy-package is good for this, but the correct modern invocation would be:

./copy-package --from=~myname/ubuntu/myppa --from-suite=trusty --to=~myname/ubuntu/myppa --to-suite=utopic -b -y packagename

(As saiarcot895 correctly noted, you needed to separate --ppa and --ppa-name, but this was always very confusing which was among the reasons we added the unified --from and --to options for specifying archives. Also, you neglected to include the package name, which was probably why you got no output; more recent versions of copy-package check for this.)

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