package picker lists unpublished (invalid) packages

[Luis Villa]

I just filed a bug against 'kernel-image-2.6'- I picked it out a list of results for 'kernel-image-2.6', since I figured that was most likely to get the most coverage on searches- and got the following note:

"Thank you for your bug report.

Note that the package 'kernel-image-2.6' is not published in Ubuntu; the bug has therefore been targeted to the distribution only."

If the package is not in the distro, and I'm filing a bug against the distro, *don't make it an option to file a bug against it*. The results shouldn't include kernel-image-2.6; it should include whatever is actually in the distro I'm filing against.

The field validator does not match the vocabulary. The vocabulary is doing a lot of work show suggestions that will never be accepted.

[Luis Villa (luis-villa)]

And I note when trying to fix the problem that you already have the ability to do this filtering, so fixing this should be less difficult than I first assumed (though potentially still difficult.)

[Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)]

Looks like a dupe of bug 202769.

[Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot)]

r13298 in stable (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/13298) is part of this bug's fix.

[TJ (tj)]

Eight years later this bug still exists :(

I found it (once again) whilst trying to report a bug against "nvidia-graphics-drivers-340" (currently in the Ubuntu xorg-edgers PPA only).

There is more than just the Package Chooser bug though; I had first added an also-affects "nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 (Ubuntu)" on bug #1247736 which *was* accepted, even though the package doesn't exist.

[Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot)]

Fixed in stable r18125 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/18125>.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

My changes aren't quite working yet: the picker doesn't pick up the current value of the distribution drop-down, and Distribution:+filebug (at least) isn't using the new vocabulary yet. However, it's all behind a disabled feature flag, so this doesn't need to block deployments.

[Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot)]

r18164 in stable (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/18164) is part of this bug's fix.

[Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot)]

r18166 in stable (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/18166) is part of this bug's fix.

[Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot)]

r18185 in stable (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/18185) is part of this bug's fix.

[Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot)]

r18194 in stable (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/18194) is part of this bug's fix.

[Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot)]

r18195 in stable (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/18195) is part of this bug's fix.

[Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot)]

r18199 in stable (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/18199) is part of this bug's fix.

[Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot)]

Fixed in stable r18200 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/18200>.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Now enabled for all users:

  http://blog.launchpad.net/beta/beta-test-new-package-picker

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.