[dput-ng-maint] [Bug 1340130] Re: support new multi-distribution PPA upload path

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** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/trusty-proposed/dput-ng

** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/trusty-proposed/dput

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Title:
  support new multi-distribution PPA upload path

Status in “dput” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “dput-ng” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “dput” source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed
Status in “dput-ng” source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed
Status in “dput-ng” package in Debian:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  Since http://bazaar.launchpad.net/+branch/launchpad/revision/17093,
  Launchpad has supported a new form for the PPA upload path,
  ~<person>/<distro>/<ppa>.  This helps with some prior ambiguities and
  so works better with non-Ubuntu PPAs, which we're going to need for
  the Ubuntu phone RTM project in a month or two.  However, it clashes
  with the current contents of dput.cf, namely "~%(ppa)s/ubuntu"; if you
  try to upload to ppa:~person/ubuntu/ppa-name, then this expands to
  ~person/ubuntu/ppa-name/ubuntu and goes wrong.

  We can reasonably safely drop the trailing "/ubuntu" here.  Uploading
  to ppa:~person/ppa-name still works fine.  The only casualty is that
  uploading to ppa:~person will fail rather than expanding to the PPA
  named "ppa" for that person; however, multiple PPAs have been a thing
  for many years now, so I think most people have got used to specifying
  the PPA name.  If not, it's an easy adjustment to make.

  Similarly, the preferred upload path for the Ubuntu primary
  distribution is now "/ubuntu" rather than "/".

  As well as fixing this in utopic, I think we should SRU this back to
  trusty to support people doing phone development there.  Given the
  audience it's probably not necessary to update earlier releases.

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