Upload error for broken upload paths is not clear about what is the problem

[Philipp Kern]

I got the following error multiple times now while trying to upload libchipcard into my PPA (~pkern/+archive/ppa). It was a sponsored upload done by someone else but signed with my key but I even fixed up the changes to list me instead, still the same error:

Rejected:
Could not find person ''
Further error processing not possible because of a critical previous error.

A sample .changes is attached.

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

This is mostly likely to be a problem in your dput.cf, can you check it
please?

We can improve the error though!

[Celso Providelo (cprov)]

Philipp, the upload path is wrong:

"~/ubuntu/libchipcard_4.2.8-1ubuntu1~jaunty0_source.changes"

Please, fix your dput/dupload configuration to point to ~<lp_username>/<ppa_name>/ubuntu/ OR /ubuntu/ if you aim the ubuntu primary archive.

[Celso Providelo (cprov)]

We could say:
{{{
Failed to process upload path '~/ubuntu/', could not find person ''.
Your dput/dupload is not configured properly, please check the documentation in http://... and update it accordingly.
...
}}}

[Philipp Kern (pkern)]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:26:46AM -0000, Celso Providelo wrote:
> Philipp, the upload path is wrong:
>
> "~/ubuntu/libchipcard_4.2.8-1ubuntu1~jaunty0_source.changes"
>
> Please, fix your dput/dupload configuration to point to
> ~<lp_username>/<ppa_name>/ubuntu/ OR /ubuntu/ if you aim the ubuntu
> primary archive.

Gah, sorry. I named the snippets "ppa" on my machines and as it happens
Ubuntu delivers a default configuration named ppa which looks like this:

[ppa]
fqdn = ppa.launchpad.net
method = ftp
incoming = ~%(ppa)s/ubuntu
login = anonymous

Now one could argue that it should warn if that %(ppa)s bit remains
unexpanded.

 affects ubuntu/dput

Ciao,
Philipp Kern

[Celso Providelo (cprov)]

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