User:Paul/sandbox/Create backport for PPA

WARNING: This article is in a user sandbox, indicating it is a rough draft, and as such, is likely incomplete, contains buggy and insecure configurations, and is subject to substantial and frequent changes.

http://opensourcehacker.com/2013/03/20/how-to-backport-packages-on-ubuntu-linux/

Steps after having already created Launchpad account:

username@servername:~$ eval $(gpg-agent --daemon)
username@servername:~$ echo DEBSIGN_KEYID=<key id> > ~/.devscripts
username@servername:~$ export DEBFULLNAME="<Given-name Surname>"
username@servername:~$ export DEBEMAIL="username@example.com"
username@servername:~$ export UBUMAIL="username@example.com"
username@servername:~$ backportpackage -u ppa:ppaname/packagename packagename
username@servername:~$

Restoring older or main repository package in the event of broken package in PPA:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/231074/getting-older-packages-from-ppa