Launchpad itself

SourcePackage is distroseries specific - would be better labelled DistroSeriesSourcePackage

Bug #64079 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas
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Launchpad itself
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Bug Description

A Distribution has more than one DistributionSourcePackageRelease, each of which belong to a DistributionSourcePackage. This makes sense.

Similarly, a DistroSeries has more than one DistroSeriesourcePackageRelease, but each of these do not belong to a DistroSeriesSourcePackage. Instead they belong to a SourcePackage. This naming is inconsistent and vague.

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Celso Providelo (cprov) wrote :

"...DistroRelease has more than one DistributionSourcePackageRelease..."

uhm DistroReleaseSourcePackageRelease, maybe

 * DistributionSourcePackage [DSP -> D + SP]
 * DistributionSourcePackageRelease [DSPR -> D + SPR]

 * DistroReleaseSourcePackage [DRSP -> DR + SP] (currently SourcePackage [SP])
 * DistroReleaseSourcePackageRelease [DRSPR -> DR + SPR]

You're right, the current name is inconsistent. But as you know, also the pages are very confusing, I wonder if the best solution wouldn't be collapsing content classes and implementing missing properties in broswer code.

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
description: updated
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
description: updated
Gary Poster (gary)
affects: launchpad-foundations → soyuz
Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)
affects: soyuz → launchpad-registry
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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote : Re: SourcePackage should be DistroSeriesSourcePackage

Fixing the name would do a lot to make the code intelligible. Would this make the UI clear? When I visit an SP page, I see it may list many versions of the package published in the series. This seems to be a meta-object/page that lists the real DistroSeriesSourcePackages under a common name.

Changed in launchpad-registry:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
tags: added: tech-debt
Robert Collins (lifeless)
summary: - SourcePackage should be DistroSeriesSourcePackage
+ SourcePackage is distroseries specific - would be better labelled
+ DistroSeriesSourcePackage
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