Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis: > On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:46:34PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> > I'm not sure about Attic / Borg. Superseding attic will break >> > automation, although I did that when I made letsencrypt inherit from >> > certbot. Also, the authors are different. Advice? >> >> I would make Borg supersede Attic. However, if Borg does not provide, >> say, an ‘attic’ command, which would make it incompatible by default, we >> may want to change the Borg package to include such a command. > > There are other incompatibilities, for example in the repository format. > Borg provides a `borg upgrade` tool that performs a one-way conversion > of Attic repos to Borg repos. Just creating an 'attic -> borg' alias > would not be enough; any automated backup scripts would still fail.
Then I don’t know. Either we mark Attic as superseded by Borg anyway, or we need another mechanism to mark a package as “discouraged”? Ludo’.
