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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Hudson wrote:
>> However, my second point still stands.  We need to traverse to a recipe
>> before the source package exists.
> 
> I don't really get this.  It sounds like the model poking the UI in the
> eye.  (If we really have to, we can have the appropriate traverse()
> method look ahead in the request and do different things if the next but
> one segment is "+recipe").

Well let's put it another way - you have a new recipe for a new package
that's not in Launchpad.

How would you traverse to it?  It seems a bit chicken-and-egg to me.

>> Another thing to consider is the owner.  Do we want to make that part of
>> the key data you need to resolve a single recipe?
> 
> I don't know (honestly).  It would make the URLs even longer, but would
> probably be more consistent with the rest of Launchpad.

Yeah that was my worry.

Jono, any opinion?