Package: wnpp Severity: normal I am orphaning the backup-manager package. The source builds two binary packages, backup-manager and backup-manager-doc.
The package description of backup-manager is: This is a backup program, designed to help you make daily archives of your file system. . Written in bash and perl, it can make tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, and zip archives and can be run in a parallel mode with different configuration files. Other archives are possible: MySQL or SVN dumps, incremental backups... . Archives are kept for a given number of days and the upload system can use FTP, SSH or RSYNC to transfer the generated archives to a list of remote hosts. . Automatically burning archives to removable media such as CD or DVD is also possible. . The configuration file is very simple and basic and gettext is used for internationalization. The package description of backup-manager-doc is: Backup-manager is a backup program, designed to help you make daily archives of your file system. . This package provides the Backup Manager User Guide in different formats: HTML, plain text and PDF. The package is not in particular good shape. On the Debian side, it suffers from an extensive (ab)use of debconf which I inherited and could not disentangle. Also, some default settings are questionable (see #784139 for a recent instance). Upstream is essentially dead, the website is gone (#711949) and the git repository on github (https://github.com/sukria/Backup-Manager) has seen its last activity in September 2013. Anyone who wants to take over the Debian package should be prepared to do upstream work as well.
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