PPA page uses the unexplained term "pocket"

Bug #135679 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Fix Released
Low
Christian Reis

Bug Description

The table of packages on a PPA page (such as <https://launchpad.net/~linux2go/+archive>) has a column with the heading "Pocket". This seems unlikely to make much sense to people who see the page.

Either the term should be explained in the page, or (even better) a more understandable term should be used.

Tags: lp-soyuz ppa ui
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Celso Providelo (cprov) wrote :

Currently we only allow upload to RELEASE pocket in PPA, so it could be removed if it helps, but it will continue one of the publishing-system parameter.

IFW a 'pocket' is a sub-division of a distroseries, used mainly in PRIMARY archive to separate packages initially released/distributed from updates/fixes occurred after the release time.

The association of a distroseries and a pocket is called 'suite', for instance, feisty (feisty + RELEASE), feisty-security (feisty + SECURITY), and determines a specific location (group of packages) in the ubuntu distribution archive.

(didn't we have the same conversation before ?)

Revision history for this message
Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote :

As long as we are going to force component to MAIN and pocket to RELEASE, we should not display these columns in the page table at all. If later we enable people to use components and pockets for commercial PPAs then we should display them.

MPT, feel free to suggest a better name for pockets.

Changed in soyuz:
importance: Undecided → Low
Christian Reis (kiko)
Changed in soyuz:
assignee: nobody → kiko
Revision history for this message
Christian Reis (kiko) wrote :

Have a branch which removes those columns.

Changed in soyuz:
status: New → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Christian Reis (kiko) wrote :

Landed in RF 5084

Christian Reis (kiko)
Changed in soyuz:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Christian Reis (kiko)
Changed in soyuz:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.

Other bug subscribers

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.