Package: release.debian.org Severity: wishlist User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock
Hi! Would it be possible to unblock duperemove for stretch? It was uploaded 2¾ days before the 10-day deadline, but somehow it sat in NEW until now. Yeah, it's our fault -- the ITP was worked on by multiple non-DDs, with large gaps between any actions; when I finally intervened and forced the issue it was close to the deadline, and ftpmasters don't operate on a FIFO. Multiple people expressed interest in this package; I for one use it heavily. Without it, those elebenty billion deduplicators we have in the archive are mostly worthless -- all they can do is to notify the user or at most hard- or symlink duplicates which tends to be a pretty bad idea (modifying one of the copies tramples all others). On the other hand, BTRFS (since kernel 3.13) and XFS (experimentally in 4.9) have in-kernel support for CoW shared extents. That support needs an userspace tool. Thus, it'd be nice if you allowed it in. unblock duperemove/0.11~beta4-1 -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.3+ (SMP w/6 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)