Launchpad Bazaar will shut down tomorrow starting September 1st.
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/phasing-out-bazaar-code-hosting/62189
#Launchpad #Bazaar #bzr #git #programming #TechNews #TechUpdates
Sad to see #Launchpad is dropping #Bazaar (#bzr) support - probably the last thing that set it apart from other code hosting solutions like GitHub.
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/phasing-out-bazaar-code-hosting/62189
At this point, it should just remove the support for hosting upstream projects altogether considering all #Canonical projects are actually on GitHub, and Launchpad is just the Ubuntu build system / bug tracker.
This is further exemplified by the fact that they announced this only on an #Ubuntu community forum.
What is Bazaar code hosting? Bazaar is a distributed revision control system, originally developed by Canonical. It provides similar functionality compared to the now dominant Git. Bazaar code hosting is an offering from Launchpad to both provide a Bazaar backend for hosting code, but also a web frontend for browsing the code. The frontend is provided by the Loggerhead application on Launchpad. Sunsetting Bazaar Bazaar passed its peak a decade ago. Breezy is a fork of Bazaar that has kept a fo...
Canonical is ‘Sunsetting’ Bazaar on Launchpad
To old-timers like me Launchpad, the Canonical-run development hub, is synonymous with Bazaar (bzr), the open-source distribution version control system (VCS) Canonical helped develop. Like GitHub, Launchpad lets anyone sign up and create a repo, then connect from the command-line to push code to it, handle merges, branch, fork, etc. Using ‘recipes’, code in bzr repos can be turned into DEBs, PPAs and Snaps. But the future of Bzr is at crossroads. Canonical plans to ‘sunset’ Bazaar from Launchpad this year: It’s not 100% clear if Canonical will stop relying on Bazaar internally for Ubuntu’s development (given how interconnected the 
#News #Bzr #Canonical #Launchpad
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/launchpad-bazaar-support-being-removed
PSA: if you have problems to connect #bzr to #Launchpad add to your ~/.ssh/config
Host bazaar.launchpad.net
RequiredRSASize 1024
It is a shame that such a huge site as Launchpad is so maladministered.