Hi László, With bookworm almost released, I figured I'd check back in. In addition to the uses I've been using dar for already, I'm beginning work on a long-term data archiving project with it, which is expanding my use case set. I blogged about that at https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10500-recommendations-for-tools-for-backing-up-and-archiving-to-removable-media if you are interested.
Anyhow, additional comments inline below: On Wed, Mar 08 2023, László Böszörményi wrote: > Hi John, > > On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 2:47 PM John Goerzen <jgoer...@complete.org> wrote: >> I had thought that I'd be able to get by without the delta-diff >> features, but due to some changes over here, they would save me multiple >> GBs per day. So I am happy to dive in to work on dar. > Sounds good. > >> I have submitted an ITP for libthreadar, which will allow multithreaded >> compression/encryption as well as enable remote repository support. I >> have also uploaded a backport of librsync to bullseye-backports to >> enable a future dar backport to bullseye with binary delta support. > Where can I check the libthreadar packaging? This is now in NEW and available at https://salsa.debian.org/debian/libthreadar >> Would you like me to take over maintaining dar? Or would you like to >> apply the patch (with appropriate changelog updates) and upload it? Or >> I could upload it and leave the maintainers line alone? > It's a release freeze for Bookworm. I'm asking for approval and will > do it once it is allowed. > I am open to giving the package to you during the Trixie release cycle. I saw that the request to include a patched version in bookworm was denied; that's unfortunate, but I will prepare a backport for it anyway. My local patchset (not uploaded) carries this changelog: * Support delta changes via librsync. * Update dep on e2fslibs-dev to new name libext2fs-dev * Add dep on libcap-dev to eneable proper capability handling. * Add build-dependency on dot to ensure figures for docs are always built. Some of the dar frontends use the Python bindings, so I may also look into getting those built in the future. If you are open to me taking over dar at this time, I would go ahead and upload 2.7.9 (with my updates above) with the maintainer changed to me. Thanks, John
