[Bug 845487]

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Title:
  Debian source publication checks have broken

Status in “ubuntu-dev-tools” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in “ubuntu-dev-tools” source package in Lucid:
  New
Status in “ubuntu-dev-tools” source package in Maverick:
  New
Status in “ubuntu-dev-tools” source package in Natty:
  New

Bug description:
  This morning, the Launchpad developers ran an SQL query to convert
  Pending source publications in Debian to Published.  The reason they
  were Pending was that the program used to import Debian was the same
  as that used to initially import Ubuntu into Launchpad, and that
  initial import needed to set everything to Pending so that the first
  publisher run would work.  However, this was inappropriate for
  representing the state of the Debian archive, so things are now being
  changed over to Published.  Some newly-created records will still be
  created as Pending until the next Launchpad deployment.

  This change has broken ubuntu-dev-tools, because there are some bits
  of code that assume that Debian publications will always be Pending
  and not Published.

  Internally, Launchpad has this:

  active_publishing_status = (
      PackagePublishingStatus.PENDING,
      PackagePublishingStatus.PUBLISHED,
      )

  ... and to be honest I think that's probably correct for most of the
  stuff ubuntu-dev-tools is doing, regardless of whether it's looking at
  Debian or Ubuntu; it would make ubuntu-dev-tools effectively more
  responsive if it didn't have to wait for a publisher run before
  noticing that a package version exists in Ubuntu, for example.

  Unfortunately, you can't pass multiple statuses in one API call (bug
  845486).  I suppose this either leaves us making multiple calls or
  asking for all statuses and filtering afterwards.

  == SRU Justification ==
  Breaks anything that looks for Debian source records in launchpad, such as requestsync in --lp mode.

  == SRU Test Case ==
  Only in maverick or lucid: manage-credentials create -c ubuntu-dev-tools -l 2
  Try to sync a package: requestsync --lp ibid
  Good: Continues with usual sync process
  Bad: E: The package 'ibid' does not exist in the Debian primary archive in 'sid'

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