sbackup has been merged and superseded by nssbackup, which is not yet in Debian. I will see if I can get a version properly suited to be packaged in Debian, and I will ask sbackup to be removed from archive.
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > it is almost one year that sbackup was modified to use a group ID that > exists on Ubuntu but not on Debian systems. As suggested on > [EMAIL PROTECTED], I have increased the severity of the bug to > 'serious' three weeks ago. (#427697) > > sbackup is a native Debian package whose maintainer is also upstream > developper. As a native package, it is translated by Debian voluteers, > whose work is ignored by the maintainer. (#431936) > > The homepage of sbackup has not been updated recently, except by > spammers (http://sbackup.sourceforge.net/RecentChanges). > > Despite the fact that the maintainer of sbackup is actively blogging on > planet.d.o, I wonder if sbackup is maintained. From a user perspective > (and I am a user of sbackup, that is why I feel concerned), I think that > if there is no future for sbackup, it can be discussed wether it is > better to remove it and save volunteer time to fix other bugs than the > ones of sbackup. > > Have a nice day, > > -- > Charles Plessy > http://charles.plessy.org > Wakō, Saitama, Japan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- José Carlos García Sogo [EMAIL PROTECTED]