Comment 2 for bug 330711
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| Celso Providelo (cprov) wrote Re: Unhelpful error message on copy-and-rebuild: "same version already has published binaries in the destination archive" | #2 |
Hi Chris,
You are right, we could do better in this case. For the record, the fact that we don't rebuild sources in the same location isn't exactly a limitation, it's a feature that avoids messing the PPA clients systems.
I totally agree with your first suggestion we can use JS on the client side for blocking selections of 'This PPA' and 'rebuild sources' and render a more specific error message. Also, instead of rendering the specific error message for every copy candidate we could easily render a generic 'you cannot rebuild sources within the same archive' error.
I have a complementary suggestion for having more helpful error messages without cluttering the current UI. We can point users to a wiki page in help.launchpad.net where copy errors are verbosely explained, similarly to what we already do for source upload errors.
Let me know what you think.