How to prepare my program for Launchpad

Question

Now, I want to upload this package to Launchpad, but it doesn't accept DEB packages. I know, that I should made source.changes file, but how?

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score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 06 '15 at 08:10

Instead of building a binary package you indeed need to build a source package and let the launchpad ppa build binaries for you.

To create the source.changes file, just issue the following command:

dpkg-buildpackage -S

From the dpkg-buildpackage man page:

   -S     Specifies a source-only build, no binary  packages  need  to  be
          made.  Passed to dpkg-genchanges.

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