After accepting a private PPA subscription Launchpad provided deb lines that don't work
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I went to my profile page on Launchpad, clicked 'View private PPA
subscriptions' and then clicked 'Confirm' to accept an outstanding
subscription. This led me to a page showing me my private
username/password deb lines. I blindly copied and pasted these and
ended up getting a 404 when I did an apt-get update. As it turns
out, the deb lines where for karmic and I'm running jaunty. I
updated the lines to specify jaunty instead of karmic and everything
works now.
I think there are two problems here:
1. Launchpad should never give me deb lines for repositories that
don't actually exist.
2. Launchpad should probably show the latest stable distroseries by
default, and provide an option to select development or old
distroseries. To be even more friendly, it would be nice to use
hints from the User-Agent string, when appropriate, to determine
which distroseries to show by default. For example, the
User-Agent in my browser is:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042523 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.10
affects: | launchpad → soyuz |
Changed in launchpad: | |
assignee: | Michael Nelson (michael.nelson) → nobody |
Is this a duplicate of bug 240225, or is the page different? Ideally bug 240225, bug 314370, and bug 361725 would each need fixing in only one place.