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Fortunately new tokens should no longer expire, so after re-authorizing, you shouldn't n..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/3214" class="sprite faq">Snaps are getting built successfully but not getting published to the store?</a></li> <li title="It is not possible to retract your team's membership in another team using the web UI. You can ask a team admin in the other team to remove your team or if you are an admin of your team, you can use an API script to retractTeamMembership(). I use the API often. Here is a script that will permit the owner a team to r..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/2215" class="sprite faq">Remove my team from a super team</a></li> <li title="Sometimes a regular ftp upload using dput seems to hang with 1k left to upload. This has happened with 2 separate FTP server implementations in Launchpad so we are left to conclude that it is a problem outside of Launchpad, possibly a router bug. You can work around it by uploading with SFTP. You need to make sur..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/1738" class="sprite faq">My dput upload hangs with 1k to go!</a></li> <li title="You have to edit your debian/control file and set a Section: header "><a href="/launchpad/+faq/1389" class="sprite faq">"Unknown section 'unknown'" upload error</a></li> <li title="If you try to upload a package that already exists in a different series in your PPA, it will be rejected. Similarly, using the "copy packages" page and selecting "rebuild" will result in an error. The problem you're experiencing is because of the pool-based repository format of Debian archives. That is, you cann..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/1371" class="sprite faq">How can I build a package for multiple distro series in a PPA?</a></li> <li title="If you have disabled your account and want to re-enable it, it's easy. You just need your old openid account to still be active (and typically it will be). 1) Go to Launchpad. 2) Click on "Log In/Register" 3) Log in with your old openid account Simply by logging in again, your account is now enabled. "><a href="/launchpad/+faq/1298" class="sprite faq">How do I re-enable my disabled account?</a></li> <li title="When bugs or answers are closed they no longer show up in my profile; this makes it very difficult to reopen a bug or view answers to bugs without searching through email. If it is an old issue it makes it even more difficult. Is there an easy way to see all of my bug reports/answers, not just the ones that are cu..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/1280" class="sprite faq">Why can't I view my closed bugs or answers?</a></li> <li title="Launchpad is free and open source. We want our authentication to be free and open too. We haven't gotten around to it yet. We plan to become a full OpenID consumer, accepting any provider. When that happens, you will be able to get an OpenID account anywhere and use Launchpad."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/1053" class="sprite faq">Why doesn't Launchpad accept any OpenID provider?</a></li> <li title="We sometimes see questions like this: "I reported a bug in Ubuntu with Apport. Since then, I've been receiving lots of emails with several different error reports. In 1 hour, I can receive 80 or more email -- it's overloading my inbox. What is happening, and what can I do to fix it?" Answer: This can happen wh..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/1037" class="sprite faq">I reported a bug, and now I'm getting spammed with emails. Why? How can I stop it?</a></li> <li title="Launchpad enforces the presence of Referer headers in browser POST requests. The reason for this is to address an important web-site attack vector, cross-site request forgery. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_request_forgery Therefore, to work with Launchpad, you will need to let your browser send Launchpa..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/1024" class="sprite faq">Why does Launchpad require a Referer header?</a></li> <li title="Yes you can, but you *must* increase the package's version. If you don't you will get a rejection from Launchpad similar to: ------ Rejected: File <UPLOADED_FILE> already exists in <LOCATION>, but uploaded version has different contents. See more information about this error in https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/990" class="sprite faq">Can I re-upload the same package sources?</a></li> <li title="If you have not received your registration email, there are a couple of things you can try: * Check your spam/junk mail folder, in case Launchpad's email is there. * Try registering again. Sometimes email providers will block the first email from a service such as Launchpad but let subsequent emails through. ..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/969" class="sprite faq">I have not received my registration mail from Launchpad. Now what?</a></li> <li title="No, accounts can not be completely purged from Launchpad. Some small traces will remain, such as the account name. Unfortunately is it is not possible to completely remove one's account information from the system. A tiny bit of basic information, your username and display name, remain. They are needed to displa..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/968" class="sprite faq">Can you completely remove my account and all of my information from Launchpad?</a></li> <li title="For an explanation of what a PO template file is and how it relates to PO files, please see this page in the help wiki. https://help.launchpad.net/Translations/POTemplates "><a href="/launchpad/+faq/956" class="sprite faq">What is a PO template?</a></li> <li title="First off, please be aware that "translation domain" has nothing to do with "internet domain". A translation domain is just a name used to group all strings for an application or module of an application. When translations are installed on a system, they will be looked up by the domain which is defined in the sourc..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/955" class="sprite faq">What do I choose for a translation domain and template name?</a></li> <li title="Yes, you can, but keep the following things in mind: As per https://dev.launchpad.net/LaunchpadLicense, please replace the images and icons with your own. Also, Launchpad's production configuration information and some configuration-specific admin scripts are not part of the Launchpad code base; you'd have to rein..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/920" class="sprite faq">Can I run Launchpad on my own server</a></li> <li title="I'm trying to use Bazaar to push to launchpad.net but I get this error: ssh: connect to host launchpad.net port 22: Connection refused bzr: ERROR: Unable to connect to SSH host launchpad.net; EOF during negotiation ---- For bzr+ssh you must use bazaar.launchpad.net, not launchpad.net or code.launchpad.net. Or us..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/858" class="sprite faq">"bzr: ERROR: Unable to connect to SSH host launchpad.net"</a></li> <li title="Choosing to hide your email address from other Launchpad users only affects its display on your personal home page (https://launchpad.net/people/+me). When you use the "contact this user" link on somebody else's home page, the generated email will appear to come from one of your confirmed email addresses. The form ..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/850" class="sprite faq">How can I contact users without letting them know my email address?</a></li> <li title="Each translation file is exported in the directory of the template that it belongs to. If the template has been uploaded with different paths in the past, it's possible that this may not be exactly the directory you expected. The translation file is named after the code for its language. Examples: pt.po for Portu..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/745" class="sprite faq">How does LP decide what location in a branch to export translation files to?</a></li> <li title="Launchpad's code hosting is provided over SFTP (as well as other protocols), so you can use an sftp client (such as sftp or lftp) to manipulate branch files directly. You can also use lp:hitchhiker, which supports all protocols supported by Bazaar itself. If you use hitchhiker, you can do something like: $ ./hitch..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/675" class="sprite faq">How to delete backup file after upgrade of branch on Launchpad?</a></li> <li title="You need to become an Answers contact for the project you wish to create new FAQs for. Follow these steps: 1. Become an Answers contact for the targetted project. See "How do I become an "Answers" contact and help with questions about a project ?" - https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+faq/667 2. A new "Create..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/668" class="sprite faq">How do I create a FAQ entry without asking a question first?</a></li> <li title="Follow these steps to receive questions about a specific project and be able to create new FAQs for it: 1. Visit the open questions page for the project you're interested in. For example: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu 2. Click on "Set Answer Contact" on the right menu 3. Mark all the appropriate checkboxes ..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/667" class="sprite faq">How do I become an "Answers" contact and help with questions about a project ?</a></li> <li title="If you've enabled a PPA in your local configuration (via software sources, synaptic or /etc/sources.list directly) when you update your packages you may get a warning that looks like this: W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key i..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/662" class="sprite faq">How do I get rid of the NO_PUBKEY warning when updating from a PPA</a></li> <li title="You can delete a PPA using the "Delete PPA" link on the PPA's Launchpad page. It can take up to half an hour for the archive to be completely deleted."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/661" class="sprite faq">Can I remove or delete my PPA?</a></li> <li title="You can remove branches that you own yourself. Simply go to that branch's page by clicking on it's name in your branch listing. https://code.launchpad.net/people/+me On that page you will see a trash can symbol next to branch name near the top of the page. Click on that symbol to have that branch removed. This wil..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/659" class="sprite faq">How do I remove code branches from Launchpad?</a></li> <li title="How can I search in the comments of bugs?"><a href="/launchpad/+faq/629" class="sprite faq">Is it possible to search bug comments?</a></li> <li title="If you are not logged in and use the lp: address for pushing, bzr will use the http protocol. However, you can't create new branches via http, and in Launchpad you can't push at all without being authenticated. To have this work in Launchpad, we use the bzr+ssh protocol; to enable this, you just need to log in to La..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/628" class="sprite faq">My push is failing with the message "Transport operation not possible: http does not support mkdir()"</a></li> <li title="Launchpad uses ISO-639 language codes: two-letter ISO-639-1 codes where available (http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/codes.asp?order=639_1) and three-letter ISO-639-3 codes for other languages (http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/codes.asp?order=639_3). Please be aware of the following guidelines: - Do not append a specific coun..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/619" class="sprite faq">Which language codes are supported by Launchpad?</a></li> <li title="Launchpad.net is "free for open-source projects". That means it's free for projects that produce software, documentation, art, or any creative work that is open source according to the guidelines at https://help.launchpad.net/Legal/ProjectLicensing. For Launchpad's purposes, a "project" is a body of work t..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/585" class="sprite faq">What is a "project"?</a></li> <li title="Unfortunately there is no way for an import of type A to be converted to type B. You must request a new import, and we can delete the existing one if you like."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/571" class="sprite faq">The source for my code imports has changed to another VCS, can you convert my imports?</a></li> <li title="Many people get annoyed with Launchpad sending them emails about bug reports because for one reason or another they did not realize they were subscribed to these bugs. You can easily find out which bugs you are subscribed to by going to this page: https://bugs.launchpad.net/people/+me/+subscribedbugs However, ther..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/570" class="sprite faq">How do I stop emails from Launchpad bug reports?</a></li> <li title="Users with a PPA are not currently able to change their username. If you have (ever) published packages to your PPA, then as I understand it, you can't rename your account (as all the packages exist on disk in a directory that uses your current username) and we don't currently support deleting PPAs. There is a bug..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/569" class="sprite faq">Why can I not delete my ppa and/or change my username</a></li> <li title="obsolete"><a href="/launchpad/+faq/567" class="sprite faq">obsolete</a></li> <li title="Project maintainers can use the "Sharing" link on their project's front page to manage who can see confidential information. They can share one or more types of information with people to ensure a trusted group can see confidential bugs and branches. Project's with a commercial subscription can configure the bug a..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/566" class="sprite faq">Sharing confidential bugs and branches with teams</a></li> <li title="When a work is in the public domain, that means it is not under copyright: it can be used by anyone for anything. The work does not have a license; instead, the author (or whoever would be the copyright holder) usually just states that the work is in the public domain. But because the concept of the "public domain..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/564" class="sprite faq">Is "Public Domain" the same as "CC-0"?</a></li> <li title="Yes, vcsimports only supports importing from the CVS HEAD."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/481" class="sprite faq">Does vcsimports only support importing from a project's CVS HEAD?</a></li> <li title="Whenever a change is made to a bug, even if the change was made by you, an email notification is sent to the subscribers of that bug. Some people find it surprising that Launchpad would email you a message for a change that you made yourself. The rationale behind this is: * Most of our most active users actuall..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/410" class="sprite faq">Why does Launchpad email me when I change a bug?</a></li> <li title="Launchpad does not and most likely will not support translations from any laguage other than English (en). This is for three reasons. 1. The gettext tools do not support this if the source language has a different plural forms set-up than English. So this would limit the choice of possible sources languages and not..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/394" class="sprite faq">How do I set up translations from languages other than English?</a></li> <li title="The import approval is done by an auto-approval script that tries to match the uploaded files to the right template and (in the case of po files) language. If it can do so, your uploads are approved rather quickly. Otherwise they have to be approved manually by the admins. If you are uploading a single pot file to ..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/374" class="sprite faq">Why are my translation imports taking so long to be approved?</a></li> <li title="With over 2.5 million user accounts, it's inevitable that more than one person will want to use the same Launchpad user id. Launchpad's default policy is "first come, first served". The Launchpad team generally does not intervene in user ID disputes (unless there's clear, malicious impersonation going on). Howeve..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/323" class="sprite faq">Someone else has the user ID I want. What can I do?</a></li> <li title="If you translate a message that requires plural versions, Launchpad will you give you as many text boxes as there are plural forms in the language you're translating to."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/255" class="sprite faq">How do I enter plural forms when translating?</a></li> <li title="Plural forms information for translation purposes consists of two values: 1. A number that denotes how many plural forms the language uses, e.g. "2" for English. 2. A logical expression (C style) that calculates which plural form is used for which number of items (n) being named, e.g. "n != 1" for English. Informa..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/254" class="sprite faq">Launchpad asked me for plural forms information. What info do you need?</a></li> <li title="No, you should leave those strings as they are."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/253" class="sprite faq">I am translating an Ubuntu documentation piece in Launchpad. Should I translate the strange looking strings such as <example>?</a></li> <li title="Launchpad makes it easy for upstream projects to get the translations that are made for distribution package(s) of their software. If you're an upstream, all you need to do is export the GNU GetText file (.po) for your software's package in Ubuntu or other distributions. To find out more about how upstream Ubuntu ..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/249" class="sprite faq">Does Launchpad share Ubuntu translations upstream?</a></li> <li title="Launchpad allows you to simultaneously translate different releases/lines of development of your software. In Launchpad we call these "series". You need to create a series for each line of development -- e.g. development, 1.0, 2.0, etc. -- in Launchpad. See our guide for more information on series: https://help.la..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/248" class="sprite faq">I want people to help translate the development branch of my project</a></li> <li title="Non-Ubuntu translation: every team in Launchpad can have its own mailing list. Take a look at our guide on how to set it up: https://help.launchpad.net/Teams/MailingLists Please read to following page, to find out more about how you can contact and coordinat with other Ubuntu translators: https://answers.launchpad..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/247" class="sprite faq">How do I coordinate with other translators?</a></li> <li title="Before we open a language for translation in Launchpad, we require that it have a language code assigned in ISO 639 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639). The language code should be for this exact language, not for a wider collection of languages. In most cases, getting a code assigned by ISO is not complicated...."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/246" class="sprite faq">My language has no ISO 639 code assigned. Can I still translate in Launchpad without one?</a></li> <li title="A translation group is a collection of teams and individuals who have each agreed to manage the review/translation of one or more languages. Projects and distributions then choose which project group they want to delegate their translation to. As a start, please consider using the Launchpad Translators group. https..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/245" class="sprite faq">What is a translation group?</a></li> <li title="First, you need to decide if you really need to join a translation team. For most projects, the translation teams are there to help review translations rather than to make them. If you're sure you need to join a translation team, you can find out which one to join by knowing: * the language you want to work in *..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/244" class="sprite faq">How do I join a translation team for my language?</a></li> <li title="If the project is already registered in Launchpad, is officially using Launchpad Translations and allows anyone to help translate, you can probably go ahead and translate it for your language. Look for the project at https://translations.launchpad.net and, if it's available, you'll be able to start translating. ..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/243" class="sprite faq">Can I translate an upstream project using Launchpad?</a></li> <li title="If you own a project in Launchpad and either no longer need it or don't have time to run it you could consider: * finding someone else who wants to run it and handing control to them * leaving the project in Launchpad as a historical record. However, if the project has remained inactive and you're certain..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/237" class="sprite faq">Closing a project in Launchpad</a></li> <li title="If your question is about a project hosted in Launchpad, it looks like the maintainer of this project has not manualy set up a project and enable translations using Launchpad. If you would like to translate this project using Launchpad please ask the maintainer of this project to enable translations in Launchpad. I..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/236" class="sprite faq">Why are there no translations for a package?</a></li> <li title="Anyone can change the status of a bug in Launchpad. This is to make it easy for everyone to take part in the bug triage process. However, there are a couple of bug statuses that are reserved only for project owners, bug supervisors and the relevant drivers: * Triaged - i.e. you've decided what to with the bug * ..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/231" class="sprite faq">Who can set the status of a bug</a></li> <li title="Deleting branches with subscribers should be just as easy as deleting branches with no subscribers."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/228" class="sprite faq">How do I delete a branch with subscribers?</a></li> <li title=" * You probably have not signed the upload, or have not signed it with a GPG key registered for your Launchpad account. * If the upload is signed, even if it gets rejected by packaging-inconsistencies, you should receive an email explaining the reasons within 5 minutes. * All of the instructions at https://hel..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/227" class="sprite faq">Why has the package I dput-ed into my team's PPA not shown up yet?</a></li> <li title="Usually, when you register a Bazaar branch with Launchpad you specify which project the branch is associated with. If you'd prefer to upload a branch to Launchpad without it showing up in any project's branch listings, you can use the +junk pseudo-project. This can be useful if your branch is: * for a project ..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/226" class="sprite faq">What are +junk branches?</a></li> <li title="Launchpad teams can each have their own mailing list. How you request a mailing list depends on what the list is for. * Ubuntu-related mailing list: the Ubuntu community has its own process for requesting and approving new mailing lists. Email jorge@ubuntu.com for details. * All other lists: if you're one of the ..."><a href="/launchpad/+faq/225" class="sprite faq">Mailing lists: how do I get one?</a></li> <li title="By default, email addresses of validated Launchpad users are visible to all other logged-in users of Launchpad. This means that, by default, if I am logged in to Launchpad I can visit your personal page and see your email address. 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