[12:59] <daedeloth> I'm trying to upload a ppa, but I keep getting this error:
[12:59] <daedeloth> Could not find distribution 'ppa'.
[13:00] <daedeloth> (in the rejected email)
[13:06] <cjwatson> daedeloth: What dput command did you use?
[13:07] <daedeloth> dput ppa:showpad ../lsyncd_2.1.5-2showpad1_source.changes
[13:08] <daedeloth> http://paste.ubuntu.com/12320625/
[13:08] <daedeloth> that's my dput.cf
[13:08] <cjwatson> daedeloth: What's the "debian" doing there?
[13:08] <cjwatson> (in incoming)
[13:09] <daedeloth> I don't know, shouldn't it be in there?
[13:09] <cjwatson> daedeloth: No.  Where did that come from?
[13:10] <daedeloth> https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/Uploading
[13:10] <daedeloth> well, except that I replaced ubuntu with debian
[13:10] <cjwatson> daedeloth: Launchpad doesn't support building PPAs for Debian
[13:10] <daedeloth> what is all this about then? https://launchpad.net/debian
[13:10] <cjwatson> That's an import so that we can copy packages from there into Ubuntu
[13:10] <daedeloth> https://launchpad.net/debian/+ppas
[13:11] <cjwatson> That's a page listing zero things
[13:11] <daedeloth> oh, bummer.
[13:11] <cjwatson> Also, that documentation is a little out of date, the modern form is ~<your_launchpad_id>/ubuntu/ppa - I'll update that
[13:12] <daedeloth> ok, I feel silly for trying. I thought launchpad had debian packages too
[13:12] <cjwatson> Import, but not building
[13:13] <cjwatson> So, you can build it for Ubuntu by changing to "incoming = ~showpad/ubuntu/ppa" and putting an Ubuntu release name at the top of your changelog, but I'm afraid you'll have to build for Debian some other way
[13:14] <daedeloth> ok, well, since I've already spent too much hopes on this, I'll try to build it for ubuntu to start with ;)
[13:17] <daedeloth> so... any thoughts on how to get packages on debian? or is that a big no-no here?
[13:18] <cjwatson> Setting up sbuild locally isn't too hard
[13:18] <daedeloth> but I want to have an apt repository where the files can be pulled from
[13:20] <cjwatson> Right, so you'd feed the output to reprepro.  There may be some publicly-available PPA-like service elsewhere that will do it all for you, but I don't know of one