directory service should print notice when resolving to mirror

This is a client issue, I think, not a Launchpad issue.

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Jonathan Lange wrote:
> This is a client issue, I think, not a Launchpad issue.

The only way we can know for certain whether it's resolving to a mirror
is to determine whether the user can write to the resolved location,
which would require extending the xmlrpc server.

Aaron
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My mistake. I thought Jelmer was asking about mirrored branches, not branches in the mirrored area.

Actually, I think I'm the one who misread it.

But I don't see how this is a client-side issue. AFAIK, the XMLRPC server doesn't provide this info.

Actually, I *think* it includes the original URL (i.e. the non-Launchpad URL) for mirrored branches.

I'm marking as incomplete because Jelmer has confused both of us and needs to clarify before we can start fixing this bug.

I'd like to see the bzr-launchpad plugin print the location of the original bzr branch, if the branch is mirrorred.

E.g.:

$ bzr branch lp:bzr-svn
Note: lp:bzr-svn is a mirror of http://people.samba.org/bzr/jelmer/bzr-svn/0.4
42 revisions copied.

As far as I understand, this requires both the launchpad server to expose this information and the launchpad plugin to use that call.

Cool.

I had thought that the server sent the original URL for mirrored branches, but apparently not.