Launchpad itself

No way to cross-link specs across products

Bug #3552 reported by Daniel Silverstone
32
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Fix Released
Low
Michael Hudson-Doyle
Launchpad itself 10.09 "Hungry Hippo"

Bug Description

In some circumstances, such as when a project has multiple products split out, it would be useful to cross-link a spec dependency. For example, https://launchpad.net/products/malone/+spec/bugsubs is dependent on https://launchpad.net/products/launchpad/+spec/subscription-consolidation, but this dependency cannot be expressed in Launchpad.

It'd be nice to be able to say "Construct a roadmap aggregating this set of products/projects/whatever".

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lp://qastaging/~mwhudson/launchpad/cross-product-spec-links-bug-3552
Tim Penhey (community): Approve
Diff: 458 lines (+238/-41)
6 files modified
lib/lp/blueprints/browser/specificationdependency.py (+3/-1)
lib/lp/blueprints/browser/tests/test_specificationdependency.py (+33/-0)
lib/lp/blueprints/vocabularies/specificationdependency.py (+81/-25)
lib/lp/blueprints/vocabularies/tests/specificationdepcandidates.txt (+6/-8)
lib/lp/blueprints/vocabularies/tests/test_specificationdependency.py (+111/-5)
lib/lp/testing/factory.py (+4/-2)
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
description: updated
Dafydd Harries (daf)
Changed in launchpad:
assignee: nobody → sabdfl
status: New → Accepted
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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote :

Having a vocabulary for the spec selection would probably go a long way to making this bug solvable. I wonder if we need a spec for this?

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Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote :

For the moment I would prefer to limit spec dependencies to the single product. When the system has been used and abused a bit more we can reconsider this.

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David Allouche (ddaa) wrote :

It is meaningful to have a specification depends on another specification in a different product. For example the launchpad-bazaar/supermirror-smart-server spec should depend on bzr/smart-server.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

I just ran into the same issue. I would like to make /distros/ubuntu/+spec/ubiquity-driver-updates depend on /products/soyuz/+spec/personal-package-archives, but at the moment I just have to note this in the status whiteboard.

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
Changed in blueprint:
importance: Wishlist → Medium
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Eleanor Berger (intellectronica) wrote :

See https://blueprints.launchpad.net/blueprint/+spec/x-project-blueprint-references

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Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini) wrote :

> When the system has been used and abused a bit more we can reconsider this.
I think that now there are enough people who use Launchpad.

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Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini) wrote :

A workaround for this is to register all blueprints on one project and then retarget them.

Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in blueprint:
assignee: Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) → nobody
importance: Medium → Low
tags: added: feature
Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson)
Changed in blueprint:
assignee: nobody → Michael Hudson (mwhudson)
status: Triaged → In Progress
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Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot) wrote : Bug fixed by a commit

Fixed in stable r11459 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/11459>.

Changed in blueprint:
milestone: none → 10.09
tags: added: qa-needstesting
Changed in blueprint:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson)
tags: added: qa-ok
removed: qa-needstesting
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in blueprint:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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