lppa

Command line tool to create Launchpad PPAs and push deb source packages to them

Installation

pip install lppa

Usage

lppa ships an lppa command line application to interact with Launchpad PPAs. Run

lppa --help

for additional information.

Create a new PPA

To create a new PPA, run

lppa create PPA_NAME [all|arch, ...]

where arch is a Launchpad processor (you can pass multiple architectures here) or all to enable all available architectures.

The currently available Launchpad processors are

• amd64
• arm64
• s390x
• ppc64el
• armhf
• armel
• i386
• powerpc

Delete an existing PPA

lppa delete PPA_NAME

List user's PPAs

lppa list

This will print a list with the names of the user's available PPAs

Fetch PPA information

Often, you may want to retrieve an URL for a PPA packages page or quickly fetch a dput command to upload packages to a PPA. That can be achieved through the info command.

lppa info PPA_NAME

Moreover, passing the -v option to the info command will also display the architectures for which the PPA can build packages.

Development

Run make devel to set the development environment up (a python virtual environment is recommended).

Run make check to run the test suite and ensure the development environment is up to date.

You can use make coverage to ensure code coverage is not drastically reduced by new changes (if proposing changes, try to write some tests for them).

For instance, a complete bootstrap script would look like:

# apt install -y python3-virtualenv python3-virtualenvwrapper
$ mkvirtualenv lppa
$ workon lppa
$ make devel
$ make check

Releasing

• Change lppa/__init__.py to set the version to be published
• Create a new git tag for the new version
• Run make publish to build a new version and push it to PyPI
• Change lppa/__init__.py to set the version to the next development version