[16:29] <Robe> is there an easy/automated way to trigger cross-release builds of already existing packages in ubuntu?
[16:30] <Robe> for example I would need an utopic version of libcurl3 built for trusty
[16:31] <dobey> the "copy packages" feature in launchpad?
[16:33] <Robe> not sure if I can copy arbitrary packages from universe/multiverse
[16:35] <cjwatson> You can.
[16:35] <cjwatson> It's possible from the web UI, but kind of hidden and awkward; but you can use copy-package from lp:ubuntu-archive-tools
[16:37] <cjwatson> (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+copy-packages, search for the package you want to copy, wade through list of PPAs you have upload access to ... personally I'd rather the command-line client any day)
[16:37] <cjwatson> Also backportpackage is a somewhat more specialised tool that may be more appropriate, especially if you want builds for more than one series
[16:38] <cjwatson> It's in the ubuntu-dev-tools package
[16:38] <Robe> backportpackage would allow me to simultaneously copy/build the package for multiple target releases?
[16:38] <cjwatson> It can deal with rebuilding the package with a different version
[16:38] <Robe> gotcha
[16:38] <cjwatson> Which you need if you're going to build it for more than one release
[16:39] <Robe> currently bitten by http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2015-03/0111.html which seems to be unadressed in trusty libcurl3
[16:40] <bdmurray> cjwatson: is there a list of valid characters that would appear in a Launchpad username and PPA?
[16:41] <cjwatson> bdmurray: Both of those are valid_name, which is re.compile(r"^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9\+\.\-]+$")
[16:43] <bdmurray> cjwatson: got it, thanks!
[16:50] <Robe> cjwatson: thanks, awkward is a fitting description :D
[16:52] <cjwatson> +copy-packages is OK for copies between PPAs, but for copies from the primary archive it would really want a rather different design.  Which is pretty much why that page isn't linked from anywhere.
[16:52] <Robe> hope I haven't broken anything
[16:52] <Robe> gah, google redirector broken again
[16:53] <cjwatson> Did you use backportpackage?
[16:53] <Robe> nah, +copy-packages
[16:53] <Robe> just to see if it works
[16:53] <cjwatson> Well, I hope you listened to my caveats :)
[16:53] <Robe> absolutely
[16:53] <Robe> launchpad.net down?
[16:54] <cjwatson> Works from here
[16:54] <Robe> hrm, cdn/proxy then
[16:55] <Robe> what's the way to go install the archive tools?
[16:55] <Robe> just clone the bzr repo?
[16:55] <Robe> +to
[16:58] <cjwatson> bzr branch lp:ubuntu-archive-tools
[16:58] <cjwatson> But like I say, I think you actually want backportpackage for this
[16:59] <cjwatson> Which is in "apt install ubuntu-dev-tools"
[17:01] <Robe> ok
[17:02] <Robe> can you tell me what caused https://launchpadlibrarian.net/210358718/buildlog_ubuntu-trusty-amd64.curl_7.37.1-1ubuntu3.4_BUILDING.txt.gz to fail?
[17:02] <Robe> seems like it wanted to pull in the librtmp-dev version it was built against in utopic
[17:02] <Robe> despite it being unversioned in the build dependencies
[17:03] <Robe> (debian/control)
[17:05] <dobey> that doesn't look unversioned to me
[17:06] <dobey> https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/utopic/curl/utopic-security/view/head:/debian/control
[17:06] <cjwatson> Yeah, that stuff is taken exclusively from debian/control
[17:07] <Robe> GAH
[17:07] <Robe> never mind, had the trusty changes.gz unpacked
[17:07] <Robe> sorry
[17:08] <cjwatson> (Well, actually from the .dsc, but that's built from debian/control)
[17:12] <Robe> does ubuntu-branches offer a code viewer for all packages of all releases?
[17:21] <cjwatson> Robe: Only when it works, which a lot of the time it doesn't.
[17:23] <Robe> cjwatson: haha, fair enough :)
[17:23] <Robe> thanks for your time
[17:25] <cjwatson> Ultimately the plan is to bring up a similar thing in git which is very likely to be more reliable, but that doesn't exist yet.
[17:26] <Robe> *nods*
[17:26] <Robe> with debian I usually click through from tracker.d.o to the respective vcs repo when there's a hint
[17:26] <Robe> was just wondering if there's something similar for ubuntu
[17:45] <chrisccoulson> Is there a known issue with launchpad? I tried to file a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/oxide/+filebug, and I've just got the "Uh oh! Something has gone wrong..." page
[17:45] <chrisccoulson> (browsing through bugs before this kept timing out too)
[17:46] <teward> popped up immediately for me...
[17:46] <chrisccoulson> It seems intermittent for me. I've just tried to resubmit my bug, and it worked
[18:24] <bdmurray> I'm getting a 503 error with bazaar.launchpad.net
[18:34] <cjwatson> Robe: Yeah, I'd very much like to have that more consistently, but we're a ways off (ironically)
[18:34] <cjwatson> chrisccoulson,bdmurray: I believe there've been some intra-DC networking problems ...
[18:35] <cjwatson> Prevailing theory seems to be that it's fallout from initial sync of a new cdimage.u.c frontend
[18:39] <chrisccoulson> cjwatson, thanks