Comment 3 for bug 1187372

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Stuart Bishop (stub) wrote : Re: [Bug 1187372] Re: No way to recover from provider errors

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 4:29 AM, William Reade
<email address hidden> wrote:
> Those machines will become destroyable once the units on them are all
> removed; working as currently intended. Should this behaviour be changed
> to allow machine destruction to induce unit destruction (and, indeed,
> destruction of all containers and contained units, etc)?
>
> That seems slightly drastic; but perhaps it's no worse than destroy-
> service destroying all relations automatically. However, it is somewhat
> complex to implement that behaviour cleanly, and it's unlikely to be a
> very high priority soon; will the workaround described above suffice for
> the time being?

The behavior I saw was that the units could not be destroyed, because
they could never be setup, because the machine they are waiting on has
failed. Catch 22. Maybe that is a separate bug, and destroy-service
and remove-unit should be able to remove units that have not yet been
setup?

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Stuart Bishop <email address hidden>