Comment 1 for bug 299036

Oops. When we changed the version scheme recently we talked about
making it configurable, but didn't expect problems so went with the
simple solution. One idea is to make it possible to pass a string
like:

autoppa --version-template "${version}-${codename}"

or

autoppa --version-template "${version}-${release}"

where ${version} is the application version, ${codename} is the
Ubuntu codename (such as 'intrepid') and ${release} is the Ubuntu
release version (such as '8.10'). Is this what you imagine? What
would you like to see?