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Launchpad is a software collaboration platform that provides bug tracking, code hosting, Ubuntu package building and hosting, and more

Launchpad is a platform of an open source suite of tools that help people and teams to work together on software projects.

It makes it easy to share code, bug reports, translations and ideas across projects.

The main Launchpad instance is at https://launchpad.net/ .

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How can I mirror a project hosted on launchpad on github?

I want to contribute actively to a project that is hosted on Launchpad. I'm much more comfortable with GitHub, and would like to continue to use it if possible. Would I be able to mirror the bzr repository on github? If it's possible, how could I…
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What's the purpose of ppa:ondrej/nginx?

I've juste add ppa:ondrej/php on my ubuntu server, and it prompt me the message below. Why am I advised to add ppa:ondrej/nginx (stable) too? What's the exact purpose of this? For information I have already installed Nginx from the official doc. $…
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Launchpad pull request

I want to propose a change to the source code of a project which is hosted in Launchpad. Problem is: I have no idea how to use the bazaar version control system, and I've never used Launchpad, so what are the equivalent steps of making a Github pull…
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How can I use numpy without installing it?

I console access to a computer where I do not have root nor sudo rights. Python version is 2.5.2 and numpy is not available. I cannot use python setup.py install --user nor there are any compilers available on the machine. Can I somehow use the…
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Does anyone have experience with a private Launchpad instance?

Has somebody already installed and run launchpad on its own server? I'd like advice as I wasn't able to find any on the web. Besides, the official team gives scary remarks on having its own launchpad. They also say that a lot of administration…
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How to acquire a complete list of packages and versions for a particular Ubuntu series using launchpadlib

I am looking for some help (an example would be excellent) figuring out how to just acquire a list of package names for a certain version of Ubuntu. For example, using the web interface I could simply search in the Ubuntu section of Launchpad for a…
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Electron package an app and upload to launchpad ppa

So, I'm building and packaging a software with electron. Now that I've made the software and got a .deb file (in Ubuntu), I want to upload it to my launchpad ppa, so that everyone can easily install/update it. The problem is, ppa doesn't accept .deb…
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How to add remote repository URL in Bazzar?

I am a git user but now I need to work on a project that is hosted on launchpad. I noticed that git and bzr are similar but apparently have some confusing differences. In git when you clone a remote repo the local copy is automatically hooked to the…
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bzr/launchpad vs. hg/Bitbucket

Very soon we are going to start on open-source (py+qt) project which is supposed to be multi-platform (we're using FreeBSD as native platform) and we're not sure which DVCS/hosting to use. In the past we were using darcs for very long time, but…
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Error: uploading files for distribution UNRELEASED to ppa not allowed

I have been trying to upload to my launchpad ppa for the first time, I did everything as instructed, used debuild to generate a changes file, all messages indicated a success, signed the changes file with my GPG key which I am using on the…
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How do I migrate a Launchpad project to GitHub including the Bug/Issues?

Migrating the code from Launchpad (bzr) to GitHub (git) is not the big problem. But is there a way to migrate the bugs/tickets from a Launchpad project to a GitHub one?
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How do I package and add my Python app to my launchpad repository?

I have a launchpad account and an activated ppa but I have no idea how to package my app and upload. I write programs with Python using Tkinter. May someone explain ?
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Permission denied (publickey) while download bzr branch

When I am try to downloading branch from launchpad. I am facing below Error. krishna@krishna-Studio-1435:~/Desktop$ bzr branch lp:openobject-addons Permission denied (publickey). ConnectionReset reading response for 'BzrDir.open_2.1',…
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How to remove a repository from Launchpad?

Specifically I have a repository setup in Launchpad. I need to remove this repository but didn't find any link to do that from launchpad website. I am wondering whether I could do it on my local branch using "bzr". Or I am missing something from the…
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How to use cmake's 'make install' from a pbuilder env debian/rules script?

This is to compile and link a static library (so only a build time dependency) that the source is fetched from a repository (just like the source of the main program) on a ubuntu launchpad build bot. currently i am doing: #!/usr/bin/make -f …
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