copying large packages can fill PPA quota without warning

Bug #321565 reported by Pantelis Koukousoulas
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Triaged
Low
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Bug Description

Since quota is soon going to be enforced, it would be very nice if very large packages on a PPA were flagged
as such (e.g., they could be red or a "human readable" size could be shown in the properties of a package
along with the name, date etc)

This can save naive users like me from copying a package like firefox-qt from another PPA and *then* discovering that it was 1.1G (!!!) and has filled our quota causing upload rejections :-/

Or the system could warn us when copying: "Copying this package will fill your quota. Are you sure?" or something.
In general, anything that would protect us from this situation would be nice.

Thanks :-)

Celso Providelo (cprov)
Changed in soyuz:
milestone: none → pending
Celso Providelo (cprov)
Changed in soyuz:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
summary: - Please flag very large packages on a PPA somehow
+ copying large packages can fill PPA quota without warning
Changed in launchpad:
importance: Medium → Low
William Grant (wgrant)
tags: added: package-copies
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