Dear Patrik, Wishing you a happy new year!
I didn't hear from you, so I thought to touch base with you. >From your last email, I sensed that you have plans for rdiff-backup. Please share, so I can align with them within my available bandwidth. I am still interested in co-maintaining rdiff-backup-fs, so the package has: 1. Releases or tags. 2 Fixes available on the debian side. 3.New feature development. Looking forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, Syed Shahrukh Hussain. On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM Patrik Dufresne <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Syed, > > Thank you for reaching out, and you are certainly welcome to take over > work on the project. rdiff-backup-fs was originally salvaged by Eric as > part of an effort to centralize everything related to rdiff-backup, but it > hasn’t received much attention since then. > > Before moving forward, I would appreciate a bit more background so we can > better understand your plans. > > - What level of involvement are you expecting to have in the project? > - Will you be focusing only on maintaining the Debian packaging, or do > you intend to work on the codebase upstream as well? > - Do you also plan to contribute to rdiff-backup itself? Any help > there would be greatly appreciated. > > For context, I’m also developing Rdiffweb and Minarca Data Backup, both of > which rely heavily on rdiff-backup. However, I haven’t had as much time > recently to contribute to the core project as I would like, which is why > additional maintainers would be very welcome. > > Looking forward to hearing more about your intentions and how you envision > your role. > > Could you also share with us some other work you have done ? > > Best regards, > On 12/16/25 09:59, Syed Shahrukh wrote: > > Hi, > > I am a Debian contributor trying to salvage rdiff-backup-fs on Debian > > I am reaching for co-maintenance of rdiff-backup-fs upstream for long term > maintenance. > https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-fs > > Present state of the repository is not suitable for future debian packaging. > > Like tags are not imported from the hg repo like in another fork. > https://github.com/gruszczy/rdiff-backup-fs > > Your help ensures fixes are forwarded upstream with periodic releases of > rdiff-backup-fs. > > There is a new PR from > downstream:https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-fs/pulls > > Regards, > Syed Shahrukh Hussain. > -- > OSS Revival > Empowering open-source, one project at a time. > *https://ossrevival.org/ <https://ossrevival.org/> <https://ossrevival.org/>* > > -- > Patrik Dufresne > IKUS Software > https://www.ikus-soft.com/ > 514-971-6442 > St-Colomban, QC J5K 1T9 >
