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PPA publishes binaries despite source being deleted

Asked by Michał Sawicz

We had an unnecessary upload into a PPA, which we have since deleted:

https://launchpad.net/~mir-team/+archive/ubuntu/rc/+packages?field.name_filter=mir&field.status_filter=&field.series_filter=focal

But the published binaries are still (more than 12h later) ones from the deleted source:

```plain
$ apt-cache policy libmiral-dev
libmiral-dev:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.8.0.2.13.1~rc3-g1e1161f32d-0ubuntu20.04
  Version table:
     3.8.0.2.13.1~rc3-g1e1161f32d-0ubuntu20.04 500
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mir-team/rc/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
     2.9.0.1.7.1-0ubuntu2 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
```

Is this by design? Does it just take time?

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) said : 		#1

This can happen if you deleted the source while publishing of the binaries was still in progress. Repeat the deletion and it should all go away properly.

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Michał Sawicz (saviq) said : 		#2

OK managed to resolve this by:

```python
archive = lp.archives.getByReference(reference='~mir-team/ubuntu/rc')
source = archive.getPublishedSources(source_name='mir', exact_match=True, version='2.13.1~rc3-g1e1161f32d-0ubuntu20.04')[0]
source.requestDeletion()
```

It took its time, but finally resolved. Thanks!