Can't tell if a ppa is deleted or not on the API

[Ryan Macnish]

Launchpadlib cannot tell if a PPA has been deleted or disabled and so if i find a ppa with launchpadlib that has been deleted, and i use dput to try to upload a package, it will fail if the PPA is deleted, but launchpadlib doesn't know that.

[Gary Poster (gary)]

I don't know if this is true; tossing to Soyuz for confirmation or correctness, and probably remediation unless Soyuz needs a new feature.

[Gary Poster (gary)]

sorry, ...unless Soyuz needs a new feature from lazr.restful

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

Yeah it's the status field missing on the archive API. Trivial to fix.

[Jonathan Lange (jml)]

Shouldn't the PPA just 404 if it has been deleted, and also not show up in collections like Person.ppas?

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

Well, we don't truely have ppa deletions, and given some assumptions
around ppa url changing and ppa url reuse, its not clear that we can.
It may be time to revisit those questions [not all ppas are equally
important / equally used].