ppa overview page doesn't make failed archive visible

Bug #191703 reported by Martin Pool
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Fix Released
High
Celso Providelo

Bug Description

https://edge.launchpad.net/~bzr/+archive

One of the packages here failed to build from source. It is not at all obvious that this is so, and that one of the packages listed is only present as a broken source package and there is no binary.

This is very confusing both for people trying to use the PPA to build packages, and for people trying to work out why they can't install the package.

Tags: lp-soyuz ppa ui
Martin Pool (mbp)
Changed in launchpad:
assignee: nobody → cprov
importance: Undecided → High
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Celso Providelo (cprov) wrote :

We should make it more clear that the binaries haven't been published in the archive yet.

Changed in soyuz:
status: New → Triaged
milestone: none → 1.2.3
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Steve Alexander (stevea) wrote :

Here's my take on this.

When I use PPAs, there's two things I want.

1. I want my source package to be converted into binary packages on various Ubuntu releases.

2. I want people to download and install my binary packages, and give me feedback.

For the first thing, I want to know if that process, converting a source package into binary packages, is not working. So, I'd expect to see an icon that tells me the packages were built, and it's all good. And a different icon to indicate that it's not built yet. And a different icon to indicate that the PPA system tried to build it but failed.

For the second thing, I want to see download stats.

Changed in soyuz:
milestone: 1.2.3 → 1.2.4
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Celso Providelo (cprov) wrote :

The proposed solution for this is to add a new colunm in the package row, listing the architecture tags in which that source will be built (the queued build records) and the corresponding build icons representing their status.

I will prepare something we can test in edge during 1.2.3.

Changed in soyuz:
milestone: 1.2.4 → 1.2.3
Celso Providelo (cprov)
Changed in soyuz:
status: Triaged → In Progress
Celso Providelo (cprov)
Changed in soyuz:
milestone: 1.2.3 → 1.2.4
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Celso Providelo (cprov) wrote :

RF 5979

Changed in soyuz:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote :

This looks great, thanks!

Celso Providelo (cprov)
Changed in soyuz:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: [Bug 191703] Re: ppa overview page doesn't make failed archive visible

That's a great usability improvement, thanks!

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Martin

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