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Microwave
Asked: 2024-09-21 00:24:45 +0800 CST

How to add Changed-By while building with debuild for launchpad?

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I decided to fork a package and put it on my PPA on launchpad. But it Keeps getting rejected beacuse sources.changes file dosen't has Changed-By: other package i forked is accepted but Changed-By is still old mainstainer and i tried to search for him with jedit in all files but i didnt find a line making CHanged-By in source code for both packages.

Email from Lanchpad: Rejected: Unable to find mandatory field 'Changed-By' in the changes file. Further error processing not possible because of a critical previous error. horizon-installer (0.1.0) noble; urgency=medium === If you don't understand why your files were rejected please send an email to [email protected] for help (requires membership).

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  1. Best Answer

    Prerequisites: You will need to set up PGP keys and SSH keys to build a package and upload them to Launchpad, respectively.

    Your debian/changelog was wrongly formatted. I sent a pull request to fix it.

    1. First, increase the version number from something like x.y to x.y-2 in the debian/changelog.

    2. Locally build the package with debuild -S. It will create a sources.changes for you, and the package will be signed by your key.

    Finally, upload this sources.changes to launchpad using dput.

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