Renaming Launchpad account breaks Charm Store account

[digitalrane]

Renaming your user account in Launchpad results in no longer being able to access your charm store account, and the contents of it, including any group-based memberships.

For example, I recently renamed my launchpad from jhebden to ec0, and I lost access to everything under cs:~jhebden, and cs:~pirate-charmers, a group which I am an admin of.

Ideally, renaming a launchpad account would rename the charmstore account. Failing that, being able to rename or recover your charm store account somehow manually would be an acceptable workaround.

Also, if anyone would be able to look into my specific account and manually fix up the launchpad and charm store association, that would be much appreciated.

[mhilton]

hi @devec0 We've updated your username in the system which should get you access to ~pirate-charmers again. ~jhebden is a little trickier. If you want to keep access to the namespace I suggest you create a luanchpad team with that name and put yourself in it. that would leave everything the same. Otherwise we can rename all the charms so that they are under the cs:~ec0 namespace instead.

[digitalrane]

Thanks @mhilton - there's nothing in ~jhebden that I don't have the sources for, and I'm fairly sure I'm the only one using charms pushed there. If it's not too much trouble to rename them so they end up under ~ec0 though, that would be really helpful, and would clean up ~jhebden, which honestly can just be deleted if possible.

[rogpeppe]

Unfortunately this issue is very hard to solve in general currently, as launchpad usernames are used as primary keys inside the charmstore database. We are looking into providing a script to make it easier to change this in specific cases.