How can I upload to a PPA without .changes file?
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So, I'm developing an app for the Ubuntu Showdown, and as quickly is still very buggy (I had problems using it), I decided to do my app entirely from scratch, using Python/GTK+3. I've done my app and I've just packaged it just using only fakebuild dkpg-deb --build
.
The problem is that I can't create a .source file, as I don't have a changelog file and the debian folder cannot be used in debuild, as is uncorrectly organized. The text shown by ls -l -R
:
.:
total 16
-rw-rw-r-- 1 francisco francisco 2 jul 3 17:48 compat
drwxrwxr-x 2 francisco francisco 4096 jul 3 20:37 DEBIAN
drwxrwxr-x 3 francisco francisco 4096 jul 3 18:36 opt
drwxrwxr-x 3 francisco francisco 4096 jul 3 20:40 usr
./DEBIAN:
total 36
-rwxr-xr-x 1 francisco francisco 1327 jul 3 20:26 control
-rwxr-xr-x 1 francisco francisco 1329 jul 3 20:17 control~
-rwxr-xr-x 1 francisco francisco 10 jul 3 20:20 postinst
-rwxr-xr-x 1 francisco francisco 10 jul 3 20:36 postrm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 francisco francisco 121 jul 3 20:35 postrm~
-rwxr-xr-x 1 francisco francisco 10 jul 3 20:20 preinst
-rwxr-xr-x 1 francisco francisco 10 jul 3 20:20 prerm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 francisco francisco 530 jul 3 20:37 rules
-rwxr-xr-x 1 francisco francisco 530 jul 3 20:37 rules~
./opt:
total 4
drwxrwxr-x 3 francisco francisco 4096 jul 3 18:36 espectalll123
./opt/espectalll123:
total 4
drwxrwxr-x 2 francisco francisco 4096 jul 3 18:36 virtuam
./opt/espectalll123/virtuam:
total 28
-rw-rw-r-- 1 francisco francisco 12614 jun 27 13:58 assistant.glade
-rwxrwxr-x 1 francisco francisco 758 jun 30 17:53 virtuam
-rwxr-xr-x 1 francisco francisco 6285 jul 3 17:39 vui.py
./usr:
total 4
drwxrwxr-x 4 francisco francisco 4096 jul 3 20:46 share
./usr/share:
total 8
drwxrwxr-x 2 francisco francisco 4096 jul 3 20:46 applications
drwxrwxr-x 2 francisco francisco 4096 jul 3 20:40 pixmaps
./usr/share/applications:
total 4
-rwxrwxr-x 1 francisco francisco 304 jul 3 20:43 virtuam.desktop
./usr/share/pixmaps:
total 188
-rw-r--r-- 1 francisco francisco 189478 jun 30 17:42 virtuam.svg
So, this is the question: can I upload my app to the PPA without the .source file? If not, how can I create it?
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