launchpad.py says a PPA package is a source package but tells you it has no binaries

[Brian Murray]

On errors.ubuntu.com I was trying to find crashes for indicator-stickynotes which comes from a PPA. However, it is not possible to find these using the current way the code is setup.

From errors/api/resources.py we have:

        elif package and launchpad.is_source_package(package):
            for binary in launchpad.get_binaries_in_source_package(package):
                packages.append(binary)

launchpad.is_source_package() returns True for indicator-stickynotes but then launchpad.get_binaries_in_source_package() returns ''. Subsequently, no errors are returned although there really are some reported about this package.

One idea to fix this would be to always add package to packages. Although, its possible that a PPA package could produce multiple binary packages and we'd really like to know the names of those.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I thought this might be because indicator-stickynotes does not have a version for raring but this also happens with firefox-lp-improvements which does.

In [4]: launchpad.get_binaries_in_source_package('firefox-lp-improvements')
Out[4]: ''

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

From what I can tell it looks like each PPA has their own archive so get the binary names would be quite hard.

gdl = lp.people['gm-dev-launchpad']
In [14]: archive = gdl.getPPAByName(name='ppa')

In [15]: archive.web_link
Out[15]: u'https://launchpad.net/~gm-dev-launchpad/+archive/ppa'

In [16]: archive.distribution_link
Out[16]: u'https://api.launchpad.net/devel/ubuntu'

In [18]: [b.binary_package_name for b in archive.getPublishedBinaries()]
Out[18]:
[u'firefox-bugsquad-lp-improvements',
 u'firefox-bugsquad-lp-improvements',
 u'firefox-bugsquad-lp-improvements',