Hi! Ben Finney: > Thanks for your interest. > > On 15-Nov-2016, u wrote: > >> I'd like to be able to use SFTP to upload from Debian to a Ubuntu >> PPA too. > > What tools already exist to do this?
Well, dput is supposed to work with SFTP simply by specifying "method = sftp" in any dput config file such as ~/.dput.cf. However, when specifying this method, dput throws this error: "Unknown upload method: sftp" There is an answer to this here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/251685/comments/12 claiming "The dput package on Ubuntu installs a /usr/share/dput/sftp.py file - maybe you can copy it to your Debian instance although I'm surprised if it's not in Debian's dput by now?" Hence, my question actually is: why can't Debian's dput work with SFTP now? I understand that besides this problem there is a dependency on bzr - which seems unnecessary. Hence my second question: there are some patches attached to this bug - will they be integrated and what's the ETA for that? Currently, I'm able to use dput only using FTP, which seems slightly insecure to me :) Cheers! u.
