Launchpad itself

Manage PPAs through the web service

Bug #381890 reported by Vadim Peretokin
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Launchpad itself
Invalid
Low
Julian Edwards
Launchpad itself 2.2.6

Bug Description

Would it be possible to manage PPAs (create new one, edit description, upload packages to) with launchpadlib sometime?

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Leonard Richardson (leonardr) wrote : Re: Publish PPAs through the web service

It's up to the team that manages the PPA software itself, which I believe is the code team.

summary: - PPA management with launchpadlib
+ Publish PPAs through the web service
affects: launchpadlib → launchpad-code
tags: added: api
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William Grant (wgrant) wrote :

That would be Soyuz, actually.

affects: launchpad-code → soyuz
Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)
summary: - Publish PPAs through the web service
+ Manage PPAs through the web service
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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote :

You can already do a lot with PPAs on the webservice, see the apidoc for methods on Archive and also see bug 276020.

I will add description editing as this bug requests but I won't add creation of PPAs (I don't want rogue scripts creating cruft).

Package upload is not suitable for the web service and will always be handled with dput.

tags: added: feature ppa
Changed in soyuz:
assignee: nobody → Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)
importance: Undecided → Low
milestone: none → 2.2.6
status: New → Triaged
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Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin) wrote : Re: [Bug 381890] Re: Manage PPAs through the web service

Thank you.

What would you recommend that a program that integrates this do for creation
of PPAs? Ask user to manually click on a specific link, or go via the
emulate-browser method?

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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote :

I would ask the user to click on a link - or you could even pop up a browser
for him.

If you start doing browser emulation (screen scraping) you will be at the
mercy of us changing the page layout, etc.

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Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin) wrote :

Alright, thanks.

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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote :

Well it turns out you can already edit displayname and description properties with launchpadlib.

use something like this with launchpadlib:

>>> ppa.description = "my description"
>>> ppa.displayname = "my ppa"
>>> ppa.lp_save()

Changed in soyuz:
status: Triaged → Invalid
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