Not easy to cleanup ppa for ubuntu-mobile; needs mass deletion or better filtering
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Bug Description
Hi,
It's quite hardy to drop packages from ppas en masse. I needed to do this in the ubuntu-mobile ppa today:
- remove packages from gutsy (which we backuped ourselves beforehand)
- remove packages which were just "snapshots" of hardy packages (backports if you prefer) for hardy (this is for a use case a bit complex to describe)
What I did was ^F/^G gutsy in my browser, selecting the package for deletion and submit, but I could only do this for the first 50 packages, and we have more packages than that, so suddenly I was stuck.
For the other change, I was looking for ~804 in the version string and was also reading the .changes file to make sure that I wasn't dropping a backport with useful changes not merged in hardy.
It would be nice if I would be able to do so more easily, perhaps having a big list of packages instead of only 50.
Another option would be to see 50 packages per 50 packages and select them for deletion.
I'm not quite sure I could easily express in a filtering criterion that I want to delete backports from hardy since I need to check the changelog, but I could have filtered by version number; not sure that's very useful in the general case though.
Bye,
Marked this one as dupe of bug 184359 because when the two listings are combined, they'll have batching. I've checked this with Celso already and he'll combine both pages on 1.2.5 cycle