cannot file bugs on source packages that have not been published

Bug #781993 reported by Robert Collins
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Fix Released
Critical
Francis J. Lacoste

Bug Description

The distribution pillar object would be a great fit for distro-like projects that don't use soyuz but do want to use Launchpad. Currently only 'source packages published in series X' can have bugs filed on them (and this is a sane limit to allow both sourcepackage name reporting and prevent bugs being filed on deleted packages).

To permit non soyuz using distro-like projects to use the bug tracker we need them to be able to file bugs. One way would be to use the existence of a blessed branch in a series to trigger bugfiling for that (sourcepackagename,series) component. This could either be a replacement policy, or a unioned policy, depending on how it would impact Ubuntu.

Ubuntu currently has a problem with things that haven't been published yet being unable to have bugs filed on them, so the thinking is that it wouldn't affect them negatively - but an explicit check is worth doing.

Related branches

description: updated
tags: added: principia
tags: added: not-pie-critical
Changed in launchpad:
status: Triaged → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Francis J. Lacoste (flacoste)
Revision history for this message
Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot) wrote :
tags: added: qa-needstesting
Changed in launchpad:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
tags: added: qa-ok
removed: qa-needstesting
William Grant (wgrant)
Changed in launchpad:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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