Re: Instructions for uploading to bookworm-backports

Boyuan Yang <[email protected]> Sat, 26 Aug 2023 13:38:42 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.backports.general
Organization	Debian Project
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi,

在 2023-08-26星期六的 10:30 -0700，Soren Stoutner写道：
> I am attempting to upload a new version of Electrum to bookworm-backports.  A Debian Developer previously uploaded an initial version that cleared the New queue.
> 
> https://packages.debian.org/source/stable-backports/electrum
> 
> The instructions on the wiki page say to "Use dput (≥ 0.9.6.3+nmu2), dput-ng or dupload to upload the resulting package (just like a regular package upload). “
> 
> https://wiki.debian.org/BuildingFormalBackports
> 
> Using dput 1.1.3 I uploaded the files to ftp.upload.debian.org.
> 
> But I received an email in response that had the following information:
> 
>     Thank you for your contribution to Debian. 
>     Mapping bookworm to stable.
>     Mapping stable to proposed-updates. 
>     Accepted:
> 
> This then went to the stable-new queue instead of backports.
> 
> The changes entry for the upload is the following:
> 
>     electrum (4.4.5+dfsg1-3~bpo12+1) bookworm-backports; urgency=medium
>     .
>      * Rebuild for bookworm-backports.
> 
> I imagine there is something obvious I am missing that would direct the upload to the backports queue, but I have been unable to find it.  Can anyone point me in the right
> direction?

Note: I am not maintaining backports.d.o; I am just a regular contributor to backported
packages.

My intuition is that your package uploading was done correctly, but you did not prepare
a correct *.changes file that actually targets bookworm-backports.

Could you provide a sample of *complete* set of files you prepared for bookworm-backports suite?
With complete files, we will be able to tell what went wrong. For example, the correctness of
"Distribution: " field in your *.changes file.

Thanks,
Boyuan Yang

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