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[Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 02, 2010, at 04:40 PM, James Westby wrote:

>I think I have heard that we would like to nuke PPAs so that users can
>reuse the name.

Yes.  Right now, it's at least moderately confusing that "deleting a PPA"
doesn't actually delete it, in the sense of "wipe its existence from the face
of the earth" :).  I've certainly created PPAs which I've abandoned and have
had to play games with archive names because the PPA namespace can't be
reclaimed.

(I've also been confused that deleting individual packages doesn't delete
their publishing records.  This means you can't resync a package after that's
been done the first time, until the Ubuntu package gets updated.)

-Barry

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