Comment 1 for bug 796867

From #launchpad:

(14:19:45) adeuring: lool: it is indeed a permissions problem, and a deliberate one: Because the packaging link affects upstream translation sharing, only package maintainers and some people with "special powers" can change an existing link. Intorduced in LP revision 12801, april this year
(14:20:16) lifeless: adeuring: but lool is a maintainer; he's core dev.
(14:20:25) lifeless: adeuring: what do you mean by 'package maintainers' precisely?
(14:20:43) adeuring: lifeless: let me check the source code...
(14:20:56) lifeless: actually its 12:20 *am* here
(14:20:58) lifeless: so I'm going to go
(14:21:14) lool: I have uploads power to Ubuntu and I also happen to be the registrant of linux-linaro ;-)
(14:21:16) adeuring: lifeless: it's the relase maintainer
(14:21:16) lifeless: but if it uses the 'maintainer' field or something, thats *debian* metadata and meaningless for permissions in Ubuntu
(14:22:18) lifeless: adeuring: spr.maintainer or something?
(14:22:30) adeuring: lifeless: lp.registry.model.packaging.Packaging.userCanDelete()
(14:22:52) adeuring: self.sourcepackage.currentrelease.maintainer
(14:23:06) lifeless: thats faulty then
(14:23:20) lifeless: thats letting debian maintainers garden Ubuntu metadata and excluding Ubuntu maintainers from doing it.
(14:23:43) adeuring: the was to avoid an unnecessary load by job which are triggered for translation sharing
(14:23:53) adeuring: s/the was/the idea was/
(14:24:20) lifeless: bigjools: ^ I have to sleep, but can you help educate / point adeuring at the right way to determine 'maintains this in Ubuntu' (e.g. can upload it to O or any -proposed
(14:24:40) lifeless: adeuring: sure, the intent was fine, but the check used is looking at a meaningless field
(14:24:57) bigjools: IArchive.canUpload()
(14:25:04) lifeless: night
(14:25:11) adeuring: thanks
(14:27:32) james_w: preferably a check that doesn't prevent people doing it when the series is frozen I guess :-)