Comment 3 for bug 702620

> *is no other way to delete*.

I don't think that's the case though--the artifacts that block (that I see) are stacked_on branches, which can be deleted, and merge proposals, which also can be deleted. All the other linkages should be removed when you use lp_delete or similar, since the exported delete method is destroySelfBreakReferences.

I agree with James:

> It is possible to manually delete all artefacts first, but that's a headache.

but I think in a scripting environment it's not too much to ask so that we don't have accidental deletions across the webservice, where it's much harder (and weirder) to pop up a message to the effect of "you have delete a bunch of other stuff! are you sure?"