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DrunkenDwarfHi all. Launchpad PPAs, theyre all public, but are they part of a searchable repository, or do you need to give out links for them to be used?02:01
dobeythey have to be added individually02:03
DrunkenDwarfright. so if i dont give out the address of my ppa for people to add, it'll not get found otherwise02:03
dobeywell it may show up in search results on launchpad02:05
dobeybut there isn't a thing in software-center which lists all PPAs available on launchpad for people to add to their machines02:05
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slacknerhiho. someone here who could bump our repository quota maybe? https://launchpad.net/~wine/+archive/ubuntu/wine-builds18:20
cjwatsonslackner: done18:22
slacknercjwatson: nice, thx :)18:22
renatosilvaplease fix bug 38380421:16
ubot5bug 383804 in Launchpad itself "Show branches stacked on a branch when trying to delete" [Low,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/38380421:16
dobey[Low,Triaged]21:18
dobeypatches welcome :)21:19
dobeya better error message would be nice, but if the branches stacked on the branch you're trying to delete, are not owned by you, then there isn't much you can do about it either. you can however, rename the branch to foo-deadbeef instead of trunk or whatever, as well21:20
renatosilvabecause there isn't much (anything) I can do, is that I asked for a bug fix :)21:28
Mc-that is a thing you can do :p21:29
dobeylaunchpad is open source :)21:29
renatosilvathese stacked branches (dependencies on someone's branch)  are really ugly21:29
dobeyno they aren't21:29
dobeywasting disk space by copying everything to every random branch everyone creates, is ugly21:30
renatosilvaMc-: the workaround is asking the branch owner to delete his branch first, so you can delete yours21:30
Mc-I^was not talking about workarounds ^^21:31
dobeyrenatosilva: that's not a workaround21:31
dobeyrenatosilva: even if that bug is fixed, you will still have to do that21:31
renatosilvadobey: so what was the github approach? they do not seem to be wasting disk space21:31
dobeyhow do you know?21:31
dobeydo you manage their private storage facilities?21:32
* renatosilva sighs21:32
* renatosilva misses the good guys that used to be here21:32
dobeyyes, when you fork a repo on github, it copies the entire repo21:32
dobeygithub doesn't do branching.21:33
dobeywell, branches are internal to the repo21:33
dobeythat's how git works21:33
renatosilvaMc-: about what then? :)21:33
Mc-about the bugfix21:34
dobeyif you want the bug fixed soon, your options are 1) fix it yourself and submit the patch, 2) contract someone else to fix it21:35
dobeyit's very low priority21:35
dobeyso very unlikely that anyone working on launchpad is going to fix it anytime soon, when there are much more important things being worked on21:35
dobeyif someone other than you has stacked something onto a branch you wish to delete, then the simplest "workaround" is to just rename the branch to branch-abandoned, and set its status to abandoned21:36
dobeysigh indeed.21:44
cjwatsonplease could you be a bit less hostile to people turning up here?  it does not actually help.22:45
dobeyhostile?22:45
cjwatsonyou are coming across as extremely hostile.22:45
dobeyi give up22:47
cjwatson"do you manage their private storage facilities?"  just snippy, no need for it at all.22:47
cjwatsonand the consequences of stacked branches really are pretty ugly - it doesn't help us to be defensive22:49
cjwatsonyes, there's a good reason for them in the first place, but even so22:49
wgrant(and we avoided the user-visible downsides in the Git implementation)22:49
dobeyi wasn't being defensive. i was just stating the reason. and yes, i agree the consequences can be ugly.22:50
mwhudsonis there something in ubuntu-archive-tools that i can use to make a no-change rebuild of a package in a ppa?23:02

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