Launchpad itself

Key UID carried over from old PPA

Asked by Will Shackleton

Hi,

I have set up a PPA for my program DroidPad (at https://launchpad.net/~w-shackleton/+archive/droidpad ), and I can upload packages to it fine.
However, I noticed that the signing key was taken from the PPA of an old abandoned project of mine, Balman. I deleted this PPA just before I created w-shackleton/droidpad, and I was wondering if you could also delete the key that went with it and assign a new one to w-shackleton/droidpad.

Also, if you are able to, could you fully delete the Balman PPA? It was never used, and I never uploaded anything to it.

Thanks,
Will Shackleton

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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) said : 		#1

Hi,

It's policy to only create one signing key per person, it would be a waste of keyserver resources to create one for each individual PPA.

For your other PPA, we only support deleting the repository area right now, more development work is needed to wipe all traces of history, so they're simply "greyed" out for the moment. Nobody can see them except for yourself.

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Will Shackleton (w-shackleton) said : 		#2

Ok, thanks for clarifying that, I thought each PPA had a key.

In that case, could you please change my key's name from "Launchpad Balman" to "Launchpad PPA for Will Shackleton"? (or "PPA for Will Shackleton")

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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) said : 		#3

Sorry, this is not currently possible. Please see the linked bug.

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Will Shackleton (w-shackleton) said : 		#4

Hi

So, is there absolutely no way that I could change the key name? What about if I delete my only PPA, then you delete the key? Can an admin do this?
No one uses my PPAs (yet), and I foolishly misnamed the key, thinking it was specific to my old project.
Could you ask someone to delete the key, so that I could create a new one (since no one uses it)?

Will

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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) said : 		#5

Hi

I'm sorry, as I previously said we have no way of doing this currently. I acknowledge it's a bit of a painful bug.

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Will Shackleton (w-shackleton) said : 		#6

Ok, thanks. Hopefully this will be changed in the future (perhaps there could be an option to revoke the key on the user options page).

I'll just put a note on the PPA saying about the wrong key name.

Thanks anyway,
Will

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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) said : 		#7

On Tuesday 29 June 2010 19:10:20 you wrote:
> Question #115851 on Soyuz changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/soyuz/+question/115851
>
> Status: Answered => Solved
>
> Will Shackleton confirmed that the question is solved:
> Ok, thanks. Hopefully this will be changed in the future (perhaps there
> could be an option to revoke the key on the user options page).
>
> I'll just put a note on the PPA saying about the wrong key name.

Indeed it's a frustrating problem but there not a lot of people who are
getting bitten by this, so it's pretty low down on the list of things to fix.

> Thanks anyway,
> Will

And thank you for your patience.
Julian.