Re: Instructions for uploading to bookworm-backports

Soren Stoutner <[email protected]> Sat, 26 Aug 2023 13:56:08 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.backports.general
Message-ID	<5343470.D4T8Ytl6Uz@soren-desktop>

Boyuan,

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.  I was using a chroot named bookworm (with 
altered apt configuration so that it also included backports).  I didn’t realize that sbuild 
populated the Distribution field with the name of the chroot, and I also didn’t know that this 
field was used to direct the upload into the correct queue.

I added the following line to the wiki, which will hopefully be helpful to future uploaders 
making the same mistake.

"The distribution field in the .changes file must be correct for the backports upload to 
process into the correct queue. For example, for bookworm this field must be bookworm-
backports. Sbuild automatically populates this field with the name of the chroot, so it is 
important that the chroot have the correct name and not simply be something like 
bookworm or stable. "

On Saturday, August 26, 2023 10:51:48 AM MST Boyuan Yang wrote:
> > Distribution: bookworm
> 
> That's it. This field must not be bookworm; it must be "bookworm-backports"
> or "stable-backports" (for the time being when stable === bookworm). I have
> no idea about what toolchain you are using but something must be wrong.

-- 
Soren Stoutner
[email protected]

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