[Box Backup] boxbackup in debian/squeeze

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Reinhard,

On Sat, 23 Oct 2010, Reinhard Tartler wrote:

> I'm afraid I have sad news for the boxbackup package in debian. I
> recently noticed that I missed to get a maintainable package into debian
> testing in-time, for details please see this thread:
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.release/39977
> 
> I understand that this might mean that the best course of action for
> squeeze is to have the boxbackup binaries removed.

That is indeed very sad. However there are bugs in RC3 that definitely 
need fixing. I'd rather pull the packages than have RC3 in Squeeze.

Is there something that can be done to fix the failure of the debian 
buildd to notify you that the package wasn't building on all platforms, so 
that this doesn't happen again?

> In order for stable users to use and install boxbackup conviniently, I'd 
> suggest to provide the packages on boxbackup.org. Would that be OK with 
> you? If yes, I would then update the packaging to the latest rc6 release 
> and provide you with binaries, at least for i386.

Yes, I would be very happy to. We even have a build bot that could 
probably provide daily package builds, and reports of build failures.

> BTW, just an idea, how about having the debian packaging in the svn 
> branch, so that development snapshot debian packages could be generated 
> easily?

Yes, I'd be very happy to do that. We have packaging for several other 
package managers in trunk already.

Please could you describe, in your packaging, your preferred build 
instructions, as there are more ways to build a Debian package than one 
could shake a stick at?

Cheers, Chris.
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