Getting rid of Ubuntu archive admin shell access

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 10:49:17PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> I probably haven't kept up with everything that can be done through the API, 
> but when I'm doing New processing (since I don't have shell access), I'm doing 
> it through the web U/I.  One thing this lacks is the ability to override 
> section, component, or priority differently for different binary packages in the 
> same upload.  This means one can't accept kernels through the web U/I and 
> there are other issues as well (usually it involves needing to override a new 
> binary into Main where some packages are (and should be) in Universe.

Yes, that's https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/828649.  While I
know the Launchpad people consider it a bug in the UI too, I suspect
that it will be easier to fix for our purposes by way of a new API - as
Julian notes, that page has been hard to get right.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]