Hello Gianfranco, Gianfranco Costamagna writes: > control: owner -1 ! > control: tags -1 moreinfo > Hello, > > >I am looking for a sponsor for my package "guerillabackup" > > I would really like to see the package working, but I see the > upstream repo is lacking the history, this makes the Debian > work less efficient in cherrypicking new stuff. > Two commits are really not that much, seems like an inactive project.
Well, one commit (the first one is the github creation commit). The software is the Python2 port of a quite old project, so just rewriting it, comparing result with old program by unit tests and committing the result to github resulted in a single commit. All other changes are from the request to transform it to Python3 (some earlier review), fixes for problems introduced by that changes, which were then added as a diff for packaging the initial release version If it would help, I could move those changes from my local branch (which is used to create the patches for the Debian package by comparing it to the github trunk) also to the github trunk. This would then create a new github trunk (upstream) version, thus starting a new RFS process I guess (due to version change). Then there would also be more upstream commits. > Is it the case? Yes and no: it is working on all my machines without any flaws or major changes for more than a year or so now and as long as I do not change my setup to expose new bugs (which I do not plan to do) or someone else reports bugs from his setup (which would require solid packaging to have new users), so long there is no real need for further development. While the RFS was running, all changes went to the Debian packaging repository and now the new salsa repository, which should build the package using "gbp", hence also no upstream changes. But I did not manage to get gbp running from the documentation, e.g. trying the following did not work out and the various (sometimes contradictory) recommendations from IRC did not really improve the situation. You can test with: git clone https://salsa.debian.org/halfdog-guest/guerillabackup.git cd guerillabackup git config user.email "m...@halfdog.net" git config user.name "halfdog" gbp buildpackage So I stopped trying with salsa/gbp. Maybe in some years when alioth/ salsa transition has progressed, documentation will be more conclusive for packaging noobs and make that step easier. > Please note: I maintain borgbackup, that I think is really more > powerful (complete) than your tool (please have a look at it). Now I had time to check that one out. If I understand correctly, it could be a nice preprocessor for the guerillabackup: * borgbackup: does local file deduplication, uses nearby storages (similar trust zone, high bandwidth, reliable connections) to create repository with or without symmetric encryption * guerillabackup: performs assymetric encryption of borgbackup outputs (e.g. the borgbackup repositories or changesets exported from the repository), distribution of redundant copies of those outputs to remote cloud storage with lower trust (other trust zones, low bandwith, unreliable connections) hd
