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Failing daily build in orphaned PPA

Asked by Manfred Hampl

The Launchpad user https://launchpad.net/~jonathonf has passed away, see https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/jonathon-passed-away/35814

There is still a recipe active that tries building a new version of VIM in one of his PPAs every day - already failing for months.
https://code.launchpad.net/~jonathonf/+recipe/vim-daily

I have no idea, what an adequate action might be for jonathonf's orphaned PPAs

see also https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/708614

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Best Jürgen Gmach (jugmac00) said : 		#1

Hi Manfred,

Thanks for raising this.

After consulting with the team, we decided it makes no sense to have a recipe building, no matter whether it works or not when there is no maintainer. I deleted all their recipes.

I will also create a support playbook, so this will be handled from our side proactively.

Jürgen Gmach
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) said : 		#2

It might also be worth considering a change to the automatic recipe dispatch logic (somewhere in lp.code.model.sourcepackagerecipe(build) IIRC) to not dispatch builds of recipes whose owners are people with inactive accounts. That would have the advantage of allowing keeping the recipe around for posterity, and would make the behaviour automatic rather than having to be driven by support actions.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

Thanks Jürgen Gmach, that solved my question.

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rj (watchpocket) said : 		#4

> I will also create a support playbook, so this will be handled from our side proactively.

Where then would this leave those who have been getting updates from the vim-daily PPA (and presumeably the other PPAs that were maintained by JonathonF)?

Is it known if this PPA will soon be revived, will be activated at some later date, or if it will now be gone never to return?

I realize this may be dependent on someone stepping up to volunteer to maintain the vim PPAs, and that there are no guarantees that someone will.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#5

@rj: Please use https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/708614 for your question about the PPA. This one (708641, same digits but in different order!) is covering a different aspect of the topic.