Software center doesn't work after LP accounts merge

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Hi Ante,

Thanks for the bug report, and sorry for the delay.
I believe your subscriptions are sorted out now, let me know if you have the same problem again when reinstalling your purchases.

I'm leaving this bug open for the underlying issue of not coping with LP account merges.

For SSO, we need to have a notification system in place first so we can publish account merges for software-center-agent to pick up and update their data accordingly.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

I have the same problem and asked how to solve the problem. Please have a look at

https://answers.launchpad.net/software-center/+question/199096

and see if that helps you.

@ricardo: that would be ideal if sca could subscribe to such events.

In the mean-time, sca already (attempts to [1]) update to the current LP username the next time the user initiates a purchase (which will update the exported deblines for all purchases). We could use this same call (check_or_create_lp_user) to verify / update the username when USC requests the list of subscriptions for a user (ie. so the exported deb-lines include the correct username). This would mean that users could simply "Reinstall previous purchases" to sort the issue out? [2]

[1] We currently have a related issue that the new username may already be present in sca and we blindly try to save a second user record with the same username, rather than (possibly) moving the subscription/openid over to the existing django user or vice-versa.

[2] Although I assume USC would need to handle remove the old entries if they are found while trying to add the new ones?

Another possible (?) solution mentioned by lukasz, was if Launchpad keeps a record of merged accounts (and previous usernames), it could include the auth details in the htpasswd for the old username as well. This would mean no changes needed for the client at all.

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oneiric have reached EOL now ; closing that report. Feel free to report against a newer version if needed, with ubuntu-bug