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Cannot rename or merge a person with a PPA

Bug #87326 reported by Celso Providelo
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Bug Description

Currently the PPAs get published to directories named like "$USERNAME". However, user can be renamed or the PPA can get transferred to a new owner (either by person merging or by reassignment in the web UI).

We should consider using a setup similar to the bazaar.launchpad.net branch storage:

 * store PPAs in directories keyed off the Archive database ID

 * generate a rewrite map that can be used by Apache's mod_rewrite in order to provide the nice archive names via HTTP.

See original description
Celso Providelo (cprov)
Changed in soyuz:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Celso Providelo (cprov)
description: updated
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Stuart Bishop (stub) wrote : Re: [Bug 87326] Re: Support PPA Renaming and Reassignment

The approach described here will make Bug #87098 trivial to fix.

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Stuart Bishop <email address hidden> http://www.canonical.com/
Canonical Ltd. http://www.ubuntu.com/

Christian Reis (kiko)
Changed in soyuz:
importance: Wishlist → Medium
milestone: 1.1.11 → 1.1.12
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Cesare Falco (c.falco) wrote : Re: Support PPA Renaming and Reassignment

I encountered the same problem trying to change my username from "c.falco" to "wallyweek".

I modified my personal details and the url for my homepage became http://www.launchpad.net/~wallyweek as I wished.

The link on my PPA main page also pointed to http://ppa.launchpad.ne/wallyweek/ubuntu, but when I tried to click it, I received a 404 from the webserver. Trying http://ppa.launchpad.ne/c.falco/ubuntu instead (the original url), all was ok. I reverted to my old username and I found that the repository had not been modified in any way.

Just one more short note: the link for Bug #87098 leads me to a page which I'm not allowed to visit. :(

Celso Providelo (cprov)
Changed in soyuz:
milestone: 1.1.12 → 1.2.1
Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)
Changed in soyuz:
milestone: 1.2.1 → 1.2.4
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Nicolas Valcarcel (nvalcarcel) wrote :

I have got the same problem. And trying to upload new packages i get this e-mail:

Rejected:
Signer has no upload rights at all to this distribution.

Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)
Changed in soyuz:
milestone: 1.2.4 → 1.2.6
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Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount) wrote : Re: [Bug 87326] Re: Support PPA Renaming and Reassignment

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Celso Providelo (cprov)
Changed in soyuz:
milestone: 1.2.6 → none
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Celso Providelo (cprov) wrote : Re: Support PPA Renaming and Reassignment

Additionally to the repository path changes, we have to address changes in the signing-key UID as well.

Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)
summary: - Support PPA Renaming and Reassignment
+ Cannot rename a person with a PPA
Tom Haddon (mthaddon)
tags: added: canonical-losa-lp
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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: Cannot rename a person with a PPA

Signing key is orthogonal if we do it right. More of an issue is that the url user see will change and that may break users of the PPA - so it needs to be something folk renaming things are warned about.

Changed in launchpad:
importance: Medium → Low
William Grant (wgrant)
summary: - Cannot rename a person with a PPA
+ Cannot rename or merge a person with a PPA
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