Comment 6 for bug 609187
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| James Westby (james-w) wrote Re: [Bug 609187] Re: users are not warned when branching ubuntu:foo (or lp:ubuntu/foo) and the package import of foo is out of date | #6 |
On Thu, 19 May 2011 13:11:53 -0000, Martin Pool <email address hidden> wrote:
> We discussed this a bit yesterday. One option would be to add some
> client side code that asks Launchpad what is the current published
> version of a package, and then we can check whether the branch is up
> to date without needing to change the package importer itself or
> launchpad. This is perhaps also more likely to be accurate in the
> case where the package importer is failing since it checks through
> entirely independent means.
I think that's a good idea.
My only concern would be the possibility that we change the definition
of "current" for e.g. natty-proposed. We don't want to be restricted in
what we can do there due to older clients.
I'm not sure what we can do there without adding an API to LP
specifically for this.
Thanks,
James