[14:33] <Laibsch> Launchpad API newbie here. When I look at https://api.launchpad.net/1.0/ubuntu/karmic/+source/samba/+bug/513727 for example, it has a field named bug_link which points to bugs.launchpad.net server
[14:34] <Laibsch> the URL is in the variable in task in a python script but when I try to get the value of task.bug_link I get an URL pointing to the api.launchpad.net server
[14:34] <Laibsch> where is my misunderstanding?
[14:38] <dobey> Laibsch: most any _link item in the API, points to the location of that item in the API. you need to get that item, and then get its web_link item, if you want the link to the web
[14:38] <cjwatson> Laibsch: The application/xhtml+xml version of that resource turns at least some links into web links (I don't know the precise details), but the application/json version is what real API clients use and that has URLs on api.launchpad.net.
[14:39] <cjwatson> Laibsch: But it's unusual to care about this detail.
[14:39] <cjwatson> Laibsch: Clients would usually just use task.bug rather than task.bug_link, and work with the materialised version of that object.
[14:40] <cjwatson> (Except in some performance-sensitive cases where you want to avoid the cost of that.)
[14:40] <Laibsch> thanks, guys. web_link did it
[14:40] <cjwatson> Ah, right, if you actually want the web URL then yes.
[14:41] <cjwatson> For display or for passing to a browser or something?
[14:41] <Laibsch> I want to check with the browser what's behind some stuff that I am fiddling with over API
[14:45] <cjwatson> OK
[22:24] <brianhogg> Hello all - I’m getting a 404 after adding ppa:builds/sphinxsearch-stable then apt-get update, would that be a temporary issue or something incorrect with the particular ppa?
[22:24] <teward> brianhogg: probably the wrong place to ask, but question: which Ubuntu release are you on?
[22:25] <brianhogg> teward: 14.04
[22:25] <teward> brianhogg: that PPA doesn't provide packages for Trusty
[22:25] <teward> https://launchpad.net/~builds/+archive/ubuntu/sphinxsearch-stable/+packages
[22:26] <teward> brianhogg: you need to reach out to that team and have them update the PPA to include Trusty builds.  Alternatively, you can specify it a custom string for accessing the PPAs precise builds, but there's a lot of good reasons NOT to do that
[22:28] <brianhogg> teward: for sure.  I started a thread and will update, on their docs page http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/current.html#installing-debian they point to sphinxsearch-daily, but same lack of trusty builds issue there.
[22:29] <brianhogg> will update the forum thread and let them know.  thanks!