Comment 2 for bug 1542239

The actual checkUpload() call seems to work fine:

wget -O- 'https://api.launchpad.net/1.0/ubuntu/+archive/primary?ws.op=checkUpload&distroseries=https%3A//api.launchpad.net/1.0/ubuntu/xenial&person=https%3A//api.launchpad.net/1.0/~timo-jyrinki&component=universe&pocket=Proposed&sourcepackagename=qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu'

So I suppose what happens is that in autopkgtest-retrier the call is being done with "&component=main".

The component is determined from the archive that you request the retry in, but that's a PPA in this case -- and PPAs always have "main" as their only component.

Asking the PPA about upload rights doesn't make much sense IMHO, as direct upload rights are also quite limited. So I guess I'll change this to always query the component from the Ubuntu archive, and separate this out from is_valid_package_version().