intermittent? 404 on https://api.launchpad.net/1.0/debian/experimental

[Martin Pool]

The udd importer failed like this

No such distribution series: 'https://api.launchpad.net/1.0/debian/experimental'.
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/srv/package-import.canonical.com/new/scripts/bin/list-packages", line 9, in <module>
   main()
 File "/srv/package-import.canonical.com/new/scripts/udd/scripts/list_packages.py", line 41, in main
   for publication in publications:
 File "/srv/package-import.canonical.com/new/scripts/udd/icommon.py", line 346, in iter_publications
   distribution, status=status, since=since, series=series)
 File "/srv/package-import.canonical.com/new/scripts/udd/icommon.py", line 369, in iter_published_sources
   series = distribution.getSeries(name_or_version=series)
 File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/lazr/restfulclient/resource.py", line 527, in __call__
   url, in_representation, http_method, extra_headers=extra_headers)
 File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/lazr/restfulclient/_browser.py", line 306, in _request
   raise HTTPError(response, content)
lazr.restfulclient.errors.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Response headers:
---
content-length: 81
content-type: text/plain
date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:17:06 GMT
server: zope.server.http (HTTP)
status: 404
vary: Accept,Accept-Encoding
via: 1.1 api.launchpad.net
x-lazr-notifications: []
x-powered-by: Zope (www.zope.org), Python (www.python.org)
---
Response body:
---
No such distribution series: 'https://api.launchpad.net/1.0/debian/experimental'.

I don't understand how that could have not existed just for a moment. It apparently has in the past and it apparently does exist now?

[William Grant (wgrant)]

You're calling distribution.getSeries with an existing distro_series object, when it wants a name or version.

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

Thanks, that's correct, but that means this is a bug in udd, not invalid.