Launchpad itself

PPAs should allow upload to "UNRELEASED" as an alias for the current development release

Bug #422617 reported by Scott James Remnant (Canonical)
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Launchpad itself
Triaged
Low
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Bug Description

When dch (debchange) is used in the popular DEBCHANGE_RELEASE_HEURISTIC=changelog mode places "UNRELEASED" in the distribution field of a changelog when you first start work on a version. As part of the release process, you use "dch --release" to change this to the target distribution.

If you upload while it's still "UNRELEASED", the archive and PPA system reject it.

Since one common use of PPAs is to test software before uploading to the archive, the PPA system shouldn't reject "UNRELEASED" uploads - it should accept them and assume the current development release of the target.

Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)
Changed in soyuz:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
tags: added: feature soyuz-upload
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Max Bowsher (maxb) wrote :

If implemented, this is likely to encourage people to upload to PPAs with version strings that look like primary archive versions. That may be undesirable.

summary: - PPAs should allow upload to "UNRELEASED"
+ PPAs should allow upload to "UNRELEASED" as an alias for the current
+ development release
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