[ubuntu-dev] Bug#857629: backportpackage: buildinfo file unknown to PPAs

[Thibaut Paumard]

Package: ubuntu-dev-tools
Version: 0.157
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/backportpackage

Hi,

When using backportpackage to backport and upload a Debian package to Ubuntu,
the upload is rejected with such an e-mail:

Rejected:
Unable to identify file
dasher_5.0.0~beta~repack-2~ubuntu14.04.1_source.buildinfo (x11) in changes.
Further error processing not possible because of a critical previous error.

A workaround is to backport to some directory (-w option), edit the .changes
file to remove all lines referring to the .buildinfo file, re-sign the .changes
file and upload manually with dput.

Either the Ubuntu infrastructure has to be updated to ignore (or use) the
buildinfo files, or backportpackage has to be fixed to do the workaround above
automatically.

Regards, Thibaut.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages ubuntu-dev-tools depends on:
ii  binutils                   2.27.90.20170124-2
ii  dctrl-tools                2.24-2
ii  devscripts                 2.17.1
ii  diffstat                   1.61-1
ii  distro-info                0.14
ii  dpkg-dev                   1.18.22
ii  lsb-release                9.20161125
ii  perl                       5.24.1-1
ii  python-apt                 1.4.0~beta2
ii  python-debian              0.1.30
ii  python-distro-info         0.14
ii  python-httplib2            0.9.2+dfsg-1
ii  python-launchpadlib        1.10.4-1
ii  python-lazr.restfulclient  0.13.4-6
ii  python-ubuntutools         0.157
pn  python:any                 <none>
ii  sudo                       1.8.19p1-1

Versions of packages ubuntu-dev-tools recommends:
ii  bzr                     2.7.0+bzr6619-7
ii  bzr-builddeb            2.8.10
ii  ca-certificates         20161130
ii  cowdancer               0.85
ii  debian-archive-keyring  2014.3
ii  debian-keyring          2017.01.20
ii  debootstrap             1.0.67
ii  dput                    0.12.0
ii  genisoimage             9:1.1.11-3
ii  libwww-perl             6.15-1
ii  lintian                 2.5.50.1
ii  patch                   2.7.5-1
ii  python-dns              2.3.6-3
ii  python-soappy           0.12.22-1
ii  quilt                   0.63-8
ii  reportbug               7.1.5
ii  sbuild                  0.73.0-4

Versions of packages ubuntu-dev-tools suggests:
ii  python             2.7.13-2
ii  python-simplejson  3.10.0-1
ii  qemu-user-static   1:2.8+dfsg-3

-- no debconf information