Ubuntu – PPA hosting packages not built on launchpad build farm

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Is it possible to build the deb packages in house and then upload the binaries to launchpad PPA, instead of uploading the source package and let it build by the build farm ?

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No it's not possible, as Launchpad only accepts source package uploads for reasons of trust - people need to be able to have the source to what was built, and you cannot put proprietary software into PPAs.

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Ubuntu – Tell Launchpad what DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to use when building PPA package

The PPAs do not have a way to specify an environment variables (including DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS) unfortunately. Until they do, you will need to edit the debian/rules file and set it manually yourself near the top (but not the first line if it uses a "#!"):

DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nodocs

Optionally, just find the section of the rules file that looks for "nodocs" and change it to do what you need it to do.

Ubuntu – Can I upload binary packages to a Launchpad PPA

No. You can only upload source packages to a PPA, for security and licensing (open-source) reasons; Launchpad will then build it into binary packages for you.

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