I would like to know, please, if there is any Debian developer
interested (with some free time) in including a fork of the zpaq
archiving program, abandonware from 2016.
The maintainer of zpaq (S.Kitt) follows many packages and I think he's
very busy, maybe too busy to help me.
I have tried cyclically over the past two years, without succeeding.
Since there is already a Debian package in the codebase and my software
is (almost) a drop-in replacement it should be fairly easy to modify
what is present (i.e. not taking much time) from this
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/zpaq
To meet Debian requirements (no binaries inside the source) I have
prepared a version that, while not being able to automatically verify
operational on "strange" systems (PowerPC, sparc etc) should be adherent
to Debian requirements
https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz/blob/main/zpaqfranz-debian.cpp
Currently the fork is in FreeBSD, OpenBSD and brew
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I apologize if I do not try again with the proposal of a new package
with the normal "bug" channel, but I already tried a year ago (Bug#1019139)
Thanks to every answers
Franco Corbelli
