API does not include Builds for sources that were copied from a prior release

[Kees Cook]

Similar to bug 443353, there are no build records associated with a source package that has been copied from a prior release.

For example: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cdrkit

cdrkit version 9:1.1.9-1ubuntu2 in Lucid came from Karmic, yet lacks the build records when viewed from Lucid's perspective.

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

Isn't that sort of right though? It wasn't build in lucid.

Or to put it another way, isn't it nice to see that it was copied from the previous series rather than build in it?

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

sigh s/build/built/

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

It would be good to discuss your use cases in this scenario so I can get a better idea of what you're trying to do :)

[Kees Cook (kees)]

My use-case is "download the build for Lucid's 'foo' package":

def get_build_url(pkg, release):
    series = ubuntu.getSeries(name_or_version=release)
    source = archive.getPublishedSources(status='Published', distro_series=series, pocket='Release', exact_match=True, source_name=pkg)
    for build in source_item.getBuilds():
        if build.arch_tag == arch:
            return build.build_log_url

This ends up not working, and instead I need to walk all publications in order to find the first time there is actually a build record:

    for src in archive.getPublishedSources(status='Published', exact_match=True, source_name=source.source_package_name):
        if src.source_package_version == source_item.source_package_version:
            for build in src.getBuilds():
                if build.arch_tag == arch:
                    return build.build_log_url

I guess this might be "by design", but that means that when prior releases vanish, so do the build records? Anyway, it's just wishlist really, since I can work around it; I was just hoping to speed up the queries.

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

Ok

IBuild has a distroseries property internally that's not exported on the API, so we'll do that so that builds can be distinguished from the current series

Then, we can provide a way of getting a build for a source regardless of the current series.