Comment 2 for bug 225131

Nathan,

ACK, this bug hits you hard on mass-copy operations. While we don't come with a solution for this you could try to use the launchpad API for copying multiple sources.

{{{
    ubuntu = launchpad.distributions['ubuntu']
    distroseries_name = 'intrepid'
    from_archive = launchpad.people[<from_ppa_ownername>].archive
    to_archive = launchpad.people[<to_ppa_ownername>].archive

    print 'Copying from %s in %s to %s' % (
        distroseries_name, from_archive.title, to_archive.title)

    copy_result = to_archive.syncSources(
        source_names=[<sourcename_one>, ...],
        from_archive=from_archive,
        to_pocket='release',
        to_series=distroseries_name,
        include_binaries=True,
        )

    print copy_result
}}}

I will copy the latest version of the sources listed from one PPA to another. Check the launchpad API docs at https://help.launchpad.net/API. It might help you to automate some of the work as well.

We sincerely apologize for the trouble this is issue is causing.