Comment 3 for bug 374019

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John Pye (jdpipe) wrote :

As an interim measure, perhaps 'dput' could be patched so that when the upload target is a 'ppa:', the message returned to the user could be something more like "Upload completed; check Launchpad for possible errors/warnings"...

Currently, dput is providing false feedback claiming 'success' but this is often not going to be success from the user's perspect, eg if they

* have wrong gpg keys
* upload a bin package instead of a src package
* do something else they're not allowed to do (what other possibilities are there?)

Ideally the feedback would be provided via the output of 'dput' but if there are reasons why that's no doable then at least dputs claims of success should be watered down a bit.