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Launchpad file hosting for project

Asked by Will Shackleton

Hi, I'm working on an application which requires extra files (which won't be included in the main program installer) in order to run.

This file is about 100MB (it's a compressed custom debian image) and is used by the program with a built in downloader. Would it be acceptable to use Launchpad's file hosting service (in a release) to host this file and have it downloaded directly from the application, or should I find a different hosting provider for this? Thanks.

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Brad Crittenden (bac) said : 		#1

Hi Will,

We generally encourage downloadable files to be artifacts from the project itself, such as release tarballs, README files, etc.

Where is the source for the deb file? Is it something that could be hosted via a PPA in Launchpad?

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Will Shackleton (w-shackleton) said : 		#2

Ah, I was unclear.
The file is a premade ext2 partition image used in a chroot on Android armel architecture phones. This is used on a rooted phone, mounted on a loopback device and chroot'd into, to run commands in a debian environment.
I've set up a launchpad project, as well as a Sourceforge project where I am hosting this debian ext2 system image; Launchpad (I have since discovered) only allows 60MB per file.
https://launchpad.net/android-netspoof

Will