representation of Ubuntu point releases
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Ubuntu point releases (e.g. 10.04.1) are not currently represented in the Launchpad database in any formal way. They correspond simply to a snapshot of -updates at a given point in time. This means that the packages present in a point release may be expired from archive.ubuntu.com before the next point release is made.
To work around this to some extent, we keep a hardlink tree on the master archive for each point release we make, so that at least we have a record somewhere of what we released with. Obviously this is suboptimal and it would be nice to have a proper representation in the database.
(History: I thought I'd filed a bug about this years ago, but on talking to Jonathan Lange today I was unable to find it. When we produced Ubuntu 6.06.1, I initially created a "dapper.1" distroseries, but was slapped down on semantic grounds - by Mark, I think - and we ended up hurriedly deleting that distroseries again. We fell back to the hardlink tree approach and have been doing that ever since.)
| tags: | added: ubuntu-platform |
| Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | New → Triaged |
Triaging low: we have a workaround and a tonne of things already in our quick-now plate. Feel free to tell me this will make a huge difference to you and we'll escalate :)