PPA with no packages says "No matching package for ''."

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

At the time of writing, <https://edge.launchpad.net/~adiroiban/+archive/lucruri> and <https://edge.launchpad.net/~adiroiban/+archive/lucruri/+packages> both say:

    No matching package for ''.

If there is no package search string, the result text shouldn't be written as if there is.

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

I have a strange feeling there's a dupe of this somewhere but I can't find it.

[Vikram Dhillon (dhillon-v10)]

In this case it makes sense to just include something like this: No packages present in this archive. So that's a little string change, will work on it. Thanks.

[Vikram Dhillon (dhillon-v10)]

Well, almost like a string change, you just have to add a condition something like: if self.owner.archive is None: print "No packages ..." something along those lines.

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

Not quite :)

The template needs to see if there are any published packages using IArchive.getPublishedSources() and then change the message if so, to something like "No packages published yet"

[Thiago F. Pappacena (pappacena)]

I could not reproduce the issue.

- If the PPA has no packages at all, it shows a help message on how to use dput to upload packages
- If there are packages and you search without insert anything on the search field, all packages are shown.

I could only see "No matching package for ''." if I search for empty spaces, and in this case I think the message is coherent.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thiago, you can see the message on https://launchpad.net/~cjwatson/+archive/ubuntu/grub (or https://launchpad.net/~cjwatson/+archive/ubuntu/grub/+packages). Yes, you do see the help message you mention, but the odd "No matching package for ''" message shows up under "Overview of published packages" without needing to search for anything.