Sends reject emails to Changed-By address when signed + uploaded to a third-party PPA

[Iain Lane]

Hi there,

I just got a rejection email for an upload that I didn't make. I believe somebody attempted to upload a package to their own PPA by debsigning the changesfile. This was then rejected due to the distroseries being unstable, and I was copied in on the mail. If indeed this upload was to a PPA (wgrant informs me that ppa.lp/ubuntu would have generated mails from "Launchpad PPA" but still be targeted to the primary archive, where this mailing behaviour is by design) then there is a bug which has caused me to be mailed here when I shouldn't have.

The message with full headers is attached for your attention.

Iain

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

I contacted the guy who uploaded it and based on his dput config he didn't upload it to Ubuntu. There's clearly a bug here, and I suspect it's because he tried to upload a binary package which confused the upload processor somehow, but I can't see where. :/

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

Response from the uploader:

{{{
What I was trying to do was to upload a binary package (both signed and
unsigned) of alex to my PPA. I have no idea whether I targeted Ubuntu
or a PPA, but here is my dput config:

[haskell-platform]
fqdn = ppa.launchpad.net
method = ftp
incoming = ~confectionery-kaput-stephen/haskell-platform/ubuntu/
login = anonymous
allow_unsigned_uploads = 0

[DEFAULT]
default_host_main = haskell-platform

I uploaded a binary package because I wasn't aware at that point that
you can't upload binary packages. This is a Debian package that I had
built on Ubuntu.
}}}

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

I got one of these too:

Return-Path: <email address hidden>
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
 by mailwash7.pair.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A91BBBD4
 for <email address hidden>; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:40:54 -0400 (EDT)
X-Virus-Check-By: mailwash7.pair.com
X-Whitelisting: sender whitelisted by rule [.*@canonical\.com]
Received: from adelie.canonical.com (adelie.canonical.com [91.189.90.139])
 by mailwash7.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5E36BBCF
 for <email address hidden>; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:40:53 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from germanium.canonical.com ([91.189.90.217])
 by adelie.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.71 #1 (Debian))
 id 1SCuzV-0006ec-9R; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:40:53 +0000
Received: from germanium.canonical.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
 by germanium.canonical.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C5F82BC402A;
 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:40:53 +0000 (UTC)
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1449408048552417450=="
MIME-Version: 1.0
from: Launchpad PPA <email address hidden>
subject: sip4_4.13.2-1_source.changes rejected
to: Jonathan De Wachter <email address hidden>,
 Scott Kitterman <email address hidden>
X-Katie: Launchpad actually
Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:40:52 -0000
Reply-To: Launchpad PPA <email address hidden>
Sender: <email address hidden>
Errors-To: <email address hidden>
Precedence: bulk
X-Generated-By: Launchpad (canonical.com); Revision="15027";
 Instance="launchpad-lazr.conf"
X-Launchpad-Hash: 65f3d5d32f2dcf57f26b229cb4bc5bffd1f6b3fe

--===============1449408048552417450==
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Rejected:
Unable to find distroseries: unstable
Further error processing not possible because of a critical previous er=
ror.

=3D=3D=3D

If you don't understand why your files were rejected, or if the
override file requires editing, please go to:
http://answers.launchpad.net/soyuz

--=20
You are receiving this email because you are the uploader, maintainer o=
r
signer of the above package.

--===============1449408048552417450==--

LP should not be emailing upload results based on Maintainer or Uploader as those are used in Debian, not Ubuntu. I can see this causing social friction with Debian. Personally, I find the message annoying since it's for a PPA that's nothing to do with me. LP knows who uploaded the package and it should only email them.