Cannot use sftp URLs for branches

[Björn Tillenius]

You can't use an sftp URL when adding a branch. I tried
to add a branch at https://launchpad.net/products/launchpad/+addbranch
with
sftp://chinstrap.ubuntu.com/home/warthogs/archives/bjorn/launchpad/DefaultAffectsTarget
as the URL, but I got told it wasn't a valid URL.

[David Allouche (ddaa)]

Yes, that should be possible. Setting status to "accepted".

  affects /products/launchpad status accepted

[Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)]

Which schemes are valid to this field?
http, https, ftp, sftp, what else?

[Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)]

Talking to David Alouche on IRC, he said to me the following schemes are good enough:

http, https, ftp, sftp.

I have this fixed on one of my branches, just need an answer from Stuart to change a database constraint to deal with the sftp URL.

[David Allouche (ddaa)]

Nothing else, for the moment.

Note that sftp URLs are not properly defined, the consensus appears to be "do as bzr and hg and disregard the sftp URL RFC draft". Robert Collins would be the reference for obscure URL questions.

[Stuart Bishop (stub)]

This is due to an upstream Python issue - http://www.python.org/sf/1407902

(Of course, we need to work around that)