diff --git a/tools/ppa-magic.py b/tools/ppa-magic.py
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-#!/usr/bin/python 
-#
-# This is a heavily experimental script to upload nightly snapshots
-# to Canonical's Launchpad PPA system.
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2008 Thomas Thurman <tthurman@gnome.org>
-# 
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
-# License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
-# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
-# General Public License for more details.
-# 
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-import time
-import os
-
-app = 'metacity'
-try_number = 1 # if you mess it up within a day
-upstream_version = '2.25.0' # should take this from configure.in, really
-version = '1:%s~%s-0ubuntu~ppa%d' % (upstream_version, 
-                                     time.strftime('%Y%m%d'),
-                                     try_number)
-
-pkg_name = app # according to motu people
-svn_url = 'http://svn.gnome.org/svn/'+app+'/trunk'
-maintainer = 'Thomas Thurman <tthurman@gnome.org>'
-key = 'D5743F03'
-basedir = os.getcwd()+'/'+pkg_name # or, if you prefer, '/tmp/'+pkg_name
-
-def write_to_files(path):
-	
-	file(path+'/changelog', 'w').write(\
-pkg_name+""" ("""+version+""") hardy; urgency=low
-
-   * Nightly release from trunk.
-
- -- """+maintainer+'  '+time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z")+"""
-""")
-
-	file(path+'/rules', 'w').write(\
-"""#!/usr/bin/make -f
-include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk
-include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/gnome.mk
-""")
-
-	os.chmod(path+'/rules', 0777)
-
-	# Compat should be 6 to keep debhelper happy.
-	file(path+'/compat', 'w').write(\
-"""6
-""")
-
-	file(path+'/control', 'w').write(\
-"""Source: """+pkg_name+"""
-Section: devel
-Priority: optional
-Maintainer: """+maintainer+"""
-Standards-Version: 3.8.0
-Build-Depends: cdbs (>= 0.4.41),
-               debhelper (>= 5),
-               gettext,
-               libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.10.0-1~),
-               liborbit2-dev (>= 1:2.10.2-1.1~),
-               libpopt-dev,
-               libxml2-dev (>= 2.4.23),
-               libgconf2-dev (>= 2.6.1-2),
-               libglade2-dev (>= 2.4.0-1~),
-               libice-dev,
-               libsm-dev,
-               libx11-dev,
-               libxt-dev,
-               libxext-dev,
-               libxrandr-dev,
-               x11proto-core-dev,
-               libxinerama-dev,
-               libstartup-notification0-dev (>= 0.7),
-               libxml-parser-perl,
-               gnome-pkg-tools (>= 0.10),
-               dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.19),
-               libxcomposite-dev
-Homepage: http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/
-
-Package: """+pkg_name+"""
-Architecture: any
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
-Description: Lightweight GTK2 compositing window manager (nightly trunk)
- Metacity is a small window manager, using gtk2 to do everything.
- .
- As the author says, metacity is a "Boring window manager for the adult in
- you. Many window managers are like Marshmallow Froot Loops; Metacity is
- like Cheerios."
- .
- This is the nightly trunk upload.  It may not be the epitome of stability.
-""")
-
-	file(path+'/copyright', 'w').write(\
-"""This package was automatically debianised by a script.
-
-It was downloaded from """+svn_url+"""
-
-	Upstream Author and Copyright Holder: Havoc Pennington - hp@redhat.com
-and others.
-
-License:
-
-   This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
-   (at your option) any later version.
-
-   This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-   GNU General Public License for more details.
-
-   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-   along with this package; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General
-Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.
-""")
-
-#######################
-
-if basedir!='.' and basedir!='..' and os.access(basedir, os.F_OK):
-	os.system('rm -rf '+basedir)
-	print 'Warning: deleted old version of '+basedir+'.'
-
-os.system('svn export -q '+svn_url+' '+basedir)
-os.mkdir(basedir+'/debian')
-
-write_to_files(basedir+'/debian')
-
-os.chdir(basedir)
-
-# Make sure we get up to having a "configure", or it won't build.
-os.system('NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh')
-
-os.chdir(basedir+'/debian')
-
-os.system('debuild -rfakeroot -S -k'+key)
-
-os.system('dput -f '+pkg_name+' '+basedir+'_'+version[2:]+'_source.changes')
-
-# And then we should clean up.
-