binary packages not exposed in API

[Colin Watson]

Distribution source packages are exposed through the Launchpad API now, but binary packages are not.

If this were implemented, it would be possible to implement 'rmadison' (a tool that queries remote archives for versions of packages) using the Launchpad API, rather than using a CGI script running on people.ubuntu.com.

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

I'm going to mark this as a dupe of bug 276020 as the work is being tracked there.

[Celso Providelo (cprov)]

Hi Colin,

I assume you are using archive.getPublishedSources(). Would be happy to query binaries via archive.getPublishedBinaries(name, version, status, distroarchseries, exact_match) as well ?

It should take too long to expose IDistroArchseries and IBinaryPackagePublishingHistory objects through the API.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Fine by me. We only need to query currently-published binaries, not the full history.

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

Yes, that's the plan - hopefully this cycle!

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

Un-duping because I have a separate fix for this ready to land as soon as 2.2.4 is open for business.

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

r8245/devel

distroarchseries and binarypackagepublishinghistory are exported.
IArchive has also now got getPublishedBinaries() to retrieve the binary publications.