[requestsync] of removed & reinstated package uses 'ubuntu' rather than the package

[Robert Collins]

Binary package hint: ubuntu-dev-tools

I did $ requestsync --lp -e config-manager

this made a bug filed on 'ubuntu'. Config-manager isn't in karmic, but it was in hardy, so the package exists and can have a bug filed on it. It would be nicer if requestsync were to do this ;) - I did it by hand after they were filed, when I realised.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Sep 23 11:34:35 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: ubuntu-dev-tools 0.78
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=la.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-9.29-generic
SourcePackage: ubuntu-dev-tools
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-9-generic x86_64

[Jonathan Davies (jpds)]

Interesting, this seems to be a problem with the Launchpad API:

    # Get the current Ubuntu source package
    try:
        ubuntu_srcpkg = getUbuntuSrcPkg(srcpkg, release)
        ubuntu_version = Version(ubuntu_srcpkg.getVersion())
        ubuntu_component = ubuntu_srcpkg.getComponent()
        newsource = False # override the -n flag
    except udtexceptions.PackageNotFoundException:
        ubuntu_srcpkg = None
        ubuntu_version = Version(0)
        ubuntu_component = 'universe' # let's assume universe
        if not newsource:
            print "'%s' doesn't exist in 'Ubuntu %s'.\nDo you want to sync a new package?" % \
                (srcpkg, release)
            raw_input_exit_on_ctrlc('Press [Enter] to continue or [Ctrl-C] to abort. ')
            newsource = True

If only there was a was_removed boolean variable.

[Michael Bienia (geser)]

It's not a problem with the Launchpad API per se, as archive.getPublishedSources() supports a status value of 'Deleted' [1].
As for now we were only interested in published source packages, the u-d-t wrapper around the LP API (lpapicache.py) sets this value to 'Published' per default and doesn't offer an option to override it. It wouldn't be hard to add it though.

1: https://edge.launchpad.net/+apidoc/#archive

[Dan Streetman (ddstreet)]

as this is ~10 years old, i'm closing as wontfix