[09:15] <nickoe> Hello. I am working on a project on lp, and today a see a lot of bugs where it says "Branch unlinked ...". I don't immediately like that. What exactly does it mean? Is it a problem? What is the purpose?
[09:33] <wgrant> nickoe: Which bugs? That just means that someone's either deleted the branch in question or manually clicked the button in the UI to unlink the branch.
[09:33] <wgrant> The email notification will have whoever performed the action in From.
[09:34] <nickoe> it looks like someone manually pushed the link
[09:35] <nickoe> but _why_ would one want to unlink?
[09:35] <wgrant> They may have linked them by mistake, for example.
[09:49] <nickoe> That does not seem to be the case.  But what is the purpose of the link? wgrant
[09:59] <wgrant> nickoe: Launchpad doesn't use them internally for anything special, just to show users which bugs are related to a branch and vice-versa. Some external tools might use them, though (eg. a merge robot could automatically include bug numbers in the commit message when merging a bugfix branch into trunk).
[09:59] <wgrant> Launchpad will automatically create the links when a bzr commit has been created with '--fixes=lp:1234', where 1234 is the bug number.
[10:01] <nickoe> so there is absolutely no reason for people to remove the links wen the branch unlinked is the branch the bug is about
[10:02] <wgrant> You'd have to ask the person who did it, but that seems unusual. The most likely possibility is that they deleted the whole branch.
[10:06] <nickoe> well, the guy did it on 30 bugs that I was subscribed to.
[10:06] <nickoe> He do not have commit acces to the project.
[10:06] <wgrant> Sounds like a deleted branch to me.
[10:07] <wgrant> Does the branch given in the message still exist?