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How do import a package from a different project

Asked by Donald Raikes

I am starting a new project, but want to pull some specific packages from the latest branch of ubuntu.
I am working on an older version of ubuntu nad want to compile these packages to run on my system and store them in my PPA.

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Best Curtis Hovey (sinzui) said : 		#1

Projects do not have packages, people do. Any user or team can create a PPA (archive) and populate it with many packages. The source code from the packages may come from many projects. Any user or team may push a branch to any public project or distribution. A person can thus have many branches one many projects. Each branch may have a one or more recipes that build the branch into a package and place the package into a PPA.

See https://help.launchpad.net/Code/FindingAndDownloading and the next three pages
and https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA and https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/SourceBuilds

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Donald Raikes (don-raikes) said : 		#2

Thank you this did clear up some of my confusion with ppa's in general.