[16:47] <eena> hiiii o/~
[16:48] <eena> i'd like to delete the packages i've uploaded here, because i'm recommending people use a repo people have time supporting: https://launchpad.net/~apache-helpdesk/+archive/ubuntu/httpd-ppa
[16:48] <eena> how do i best do that?
[16:50] <cjwatson> eena: https://launchpad.net/~apache-helpdesk/+archive/ubuntu/httpd-ppa/+packages will have a "Delete packages" link at the top right, where you can delete all the packages but leave the PPA; the effect will be that "apt-get update" will succeed for existing users but there'll be nothing in that archive.  Or the page you gave should have a "Delete PPA" link for you in the top right; if you use that then the entire archive will be deleted ...
[16:50] <cjwatson> ... and "apt-get update" will fail for existing users until they remove the archive from their configuration.
[16:50] <cjwatson> Your choice.
[16:50] <cjwatson> If you do the latter, then your helpful message will vanish too.
[16:51] <eena> cjwatson: i'm torn.
[16:51] <cjwatson> So I guess you just want to delete all the individual packages using the "Delete packages" link.
[16:51] <eena> yeah. unless there's a way to display that helpful message in add-apt repo, or in apt-get update
[16:52] <cjwatson> Not AFAIK.
[16:52] <cjwatson> Well, add-apt-repository should already display the repository description.
[16:52] <cjwatson> (But not if the archive is deleted.)
[16:52] <eena> i hope anyone actually reads that.
[17:05] <dobey> well, if you delete the ppa and people try to add-apt-repo it, then they'll get an error message that it doesn't exist