Hello, Anyone working on packaging the ftpmaster's ftpsync set of scripts?
I looked at the git repository[2] which holds the latest version[1] and it seems the package needs some work. For example there's no debian/ directory at all, and scripts like "ftpsync" itself need to be called with certain environment variables to run properly. Those scripts also need a config file which, it seems to me, would be reasonable to configure with debconf or similar. Finally, it seems that "ftpsync" isn't really the appropriate name because, as was mentionned before, that package name is already taken by a more general GNU utility. Furthermore, much more than the ftpsync script are packaged in there. There are scripts to: * notify mirrors (bin/runmirrors) * deploy the scripts themselves (bin/udh, bin/dircombine) * a script to sync packages.debian.org (bin/pushpdo) * check mirror status (mirrorcheck/*, the dmc seen at http://mirror.debian.org/status.html) There are also scripts I don't understand what they does: * bin/websync - seems similar to ftpsync? * bin/typicalsync - seems to just do the rsync, how does that compare with ftpsync? Besides, the git repo is called "archvsync", maybe that could be used for the package name? Or should those components be split in multiple parts? Mirrorcheck, for example, maybe should be a completely separate package? Otherwise maybe this could be simply called debian-archive-tools? I'm mostly curious to hear whether the FTP masters are intending to package this tool, and if they would use the packaged version for their own needs as well. Thanks for any feedback, A. [1]: https://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror [2]: git clone https://ftp-master.debian.org/git/archvsync.git -- Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life. - Confucius
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