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I copied my package from trusty's repository also to utopic's repository of my PPA without re-building the binaries by using Launchpad's copy packages feature. Now I noticed that the utopic package didn't work so I deleted it by using Launchpad's delete packages feature. Several hours later, my PPA now shows and publishes only for trusty so it seems to be ok. This time I copied the package using the re-build binaries option, but I get error "same version already has published binaries in the destination archive".

The question is: how can I REALLY REALLY REALLY delete the old packages from utopic's repository? I wouldn't like to release a new package version just because of this.

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It's the same repository (pool) for all series; and in any case you can never reuse a version for files with different content once it's been used in any given archive. You must upload with a changed version number in order to get new builds.

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  • Yeah, but it's still possible to copy packages using the same version without re-building. See askubuntu.com/questions/20835/… There's a comment that says: "It's a bug in launchpad that it either doesn't change the name/version or that it offers the option. "
    – juzzlin
    May 2, 2015 at 16:47
  • I agree that it shouldn't offer the option to rebuild packages in that case. bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/330711
    – Colin Watson
    May 3, 2015 at 12:11
  • Wow...filed in 2009 and still not fixed :)
    – juzzlin
    May 3, 2015 at 16:16

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