Bug#983146: sponsorship-requests: Backup next generation (bung)
Charles, > I tried hard to make a source .deb but did not manage to do so. Would > you like me to share the system I use to create the .deb? A source package is required for inclusion in Debian. The binary packages are built automatically on Debian infrastructure and must use certain build tools for that to work. So, to proceed, there needs to be a compliant source package. If you want to maintain this package in Debian yourself, see the "Introduction for maintainers" [1] page. If you hope to find someone else to maintain it in Debian, you should instead file a "Request for package" (RFP) bug to add it to the list of requested packages [2]. [1] https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers/ [2] https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/requested Regards, Robin
Bug#983146: sponsorship-requests: Backup next generation (bung)
Hello, > Please change the email address on this bug report from > send_only.aurin...@auroville.org.in to b...@charlesmatkinson.org See controlling the Debian BTS [1]. > I tried hard to make a source .deb but did not manage to do so. > Would you like me to share the system I use to create the .deb? Please see the new maintainers guide [2]. The long and short of it is: Debian manages thousands of software packages and provides a huge amount of freedom to maintainers in how they do so. However, your package MUST build from a single call to debian/rules (see [3], /FTBFSIASW/). This baseline level of uniformity allows Debian to support many architectures and provide support for the full duration of a Debian release. > bung was not a Debian package so I thought the appropriate place > to install it was under /opt. If it becomes a Debian package > then it should be installed in the conventional places. Since you are submitting a package to be included in Debian, it will not be accepted unless it is packaged in a way that is suitable for Debian---all the files should be placed in accordance with the Debian FHS (see [4] and [5]). Once you do this, be sure to use lintian---I suggest at least looking at the "pedantic" results: lintian --verbose -L ">=pedantic" $changes_file Sponsors are more likely to look at a lintian-clean package. Best, Antonio [1] https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#submitter [2] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ [3] https://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html [4] https://wiki.debian.org/FilesystemHierarchyStandard [5] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html
Bug#983146: sponsorship-requests: Backup next generation (bung)
Dear Maintainer, Please change the email address on this bug report from send_only.aurin...@auroville.org.in to b...@charlesmatkinson.org Best Charles Atkinson On 20/02/2021 08:34, Charles Atkinson wrote: Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, bung has been developed over eight years as a campus backup utility, running on Debian and a few Ubuntu systems. It is known to be used on more than 100 computers Documentation includes man pages and, available from https://redmine.auroville.org.in/projects/bung/wiki/Bung_technology user and programmer guides Selected text from that page follows bung is a set of wrapper scripts for several backup utilities: * OpenLDAP (slapcat and tar) * mysqldump * pgdump * rsync bung also has: * A "sysinfo" facility to generate system information reports * Templated backups allowing custom backup commands. Example templates are provided for Cisco switches and MikroTik routers bung features: * Automated backup to hotplug devices when they are plugged in with on-screen notifications to both character terminals and X displays * Backup to remote file systems via ssh * Custom commands (hooks) to run before and after the backup itself * File system hierarchy standard (FHS) compliant installation under /opt. For cron jobs, documentation, the logcheck filter file and man pages, symlinks are created in the conventional places with targets under /opt. Fori convenience, /etc/opt/bung and /var/log/bung are created for configuration and logs * GPLv2 * Logging designed to ease production support * LVM snapshots * man pages * Mounting and unmounting local file systems * Remote ssh command validation Best Charles Atkinson
Bug#983146: sponsorship-requests: Backup next generation (bung)
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, bung has been developed over eight years as a campus backup utility, running on Debian and a few Ubuntu systems. It is known to be used on more than 100 computers Documentation includes man pages and, available from https://redmine.auroville.org.in/projects/bung/wiki/Bung_technology user and programmer guides Selected text from that page follows bung is a set of wrapper scripts for several backup utilities: * OpenLDAP (slapcat and tar) * mysqldump * pgdump * rsync bung also has: * A "sysinfo" facility to generate system information reports * Templated backups allowing custom backup commands. Example templates are provided for Cisco switches and MikroTik routers bung features: * Automated backup to hotplug devices when they are plugged in with on-screen notifications to both character terminals and X displays * Backup to remote file systems via ssh * Custom commands (hooks) to run before and after the backup itself * File system hierarchy standard (FHS) compliant installation under /opt. For cron jobs, documentation, the logcheck filter file and man pages, symlinks are created in the conventional places with targets under /opt. Fori convenience, /etc/opt/bung and /var/log/bung are created for configuration and logs * GPLv2 * Logging designed to ease production support * LVM snapshots * man pages * Mounting and unmounting local file systems * Remote ssh command validation Best Charles Atkinson
