Association between source package and product is not discoverable

[David Allouche]

Timo Jyrinki reports that:

        A code repository is either non-existent or very hard to find,
        and at least it's not linked to from Launchpad. I was finally
        pointed at http://people.ubuntu.com/~mvo/bzr/, which apparently
        has the latest gnome-app-install and update-manager.
[...]
        Also the gnome-app-install product page isn't seemingly linked
        with
        https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-app-install
        in any way, which is more like a Launchpad issue. It's starting
        to be hard to find stuff in Launchpad sometimes...

The gnome-app-install source package is properly linked with the
gnome-app-install main productseries, but Launchpad is not displaying
anything on the product or sourcepackage pages. From the product page,
you can actually click on the "Packages" link in the menu portlet
https://launchpad.net/products/gnome-app-install/+packages
and get a non-hyperlinked table pointing to the corresponding source
packages. This could probably benefit from being hyperlinked and made
more visible.

Maybe the product and and sourcepackage page should link to the
associated product and series or say something like "not associated to
any source package" and "not associated to any release series".

Oh, and the "source package" entry in productseries/+source is quite
confusing since it will update any number of existing relations or
create a new one, and will be always empty in the form even if the
series is already associated a source package.

Nevermind bug #31307 which prevents actually using that form entry for
many productseries.

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[Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)]

Seems fixed in the new UI. Please re-open if not.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Well, no. There's a semi-obvious link from <https://launchpad.net/gnome-app-install> to <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/warty/+source/gnome-app-install>, but there's no link from <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/warty/+source/gnome-app-install> to <https://launchpad.net/gnome-app-install>.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Sorry, I meant there's no link from <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-app-install> to <https://launchpad.net/gnome-app-install>.

[Christian Reis (kiko)]

There is now.

[David Allouche (ddaa)]

I cannot see any hyperlink from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-app-install to https://launchpad.net/gnome-app-install.

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

From a duplicate by William Grant.

A page like https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox knows that it is linked to the Firefox project (it displays the description and logo), but does not link to it. It knows precisely which project it needs to link to, so adding a link should be trivial.

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

Fix committed in launchpad devel r9837.

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

Fixed released in launchpad-project 3.1.11.