RFS: snap2 rsync-based backup program with GUI (with Debian source)

2010-06-15 Thread Lloyd Standish
Hello All, My previous RFS for this package was premature because I had not prepared the Debian source files. Even though the package contains no compiled code, this was a gross omission, for which I apologize. I have carefully built the Debian source files according to the documentation.

Re: RFS: snap2 rsync-based backup program with GUI (with Debian source)

2010-06-15 Thread Lloyd Standish
Dear Norbert, Thank you for your help with my snap2 project. The package appears to be lintian-clean. How do you come to that idea? Of course I came to that idea by running lintian (Lintian v1.24.2.1+lenny1) against the binary deb. It reported nothing (clean). I think the problem is

Re: RFS: snap2 rsync-based backup program with GUI (with Debian source)

2010-06-15 Thread Lloyd Standish
Preining prein...@logic.at wrote: On Di, 15 Jun 2010, Lloyd Standish wrote: Of course I came to that idea by running lintian (Lintian v1.24.2.1+lenny1) against the binary deb. It reported nothing (clean). I think the problem is that I am running the Debian stable (Lenny) version of dpkg-dev

RFS: 'snap2' rsync-based backup program with GUI

2010-06-11 Thread Lloyd Standish
Hello DD's: My name is Lloyd Standish. I am the author and upstream maintainer of snap2, a fast, easy-to-use rsync-based backup program with GUI. It is considered tested/stable after several months of testing. I first released it publicly in 2009, but I used a previous version

Re: RFS: 'snap2' rsync-based backup program with GUI

2010-06-11 Thread Lloyd Standish
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:07:17 -0600, Thomas Goirand tho...@goirand.fr wrote: Lloyd Standish wrote: Hello DD's: My name is Lloyd Standish. I am the author and upstream maintainer of snap2, a fast, easy-to-use rsync-based backup program with GUI. It is considered tested/stable after several months

Re: RFS: 'snap2' rsync-based backup program with GUI

2010-06-11 Thread Lloyd Standish
Johan, your suggestion of looking at at art package was very helpful. I get a (separate) source package together as soon as I can. It is ironic in this case that the upstream source tree that I develop from is (except for the changlog files and man page, which I keep elsewhere) an exact copy

Re: RFS: 'snap2' rsync-based backup program with GUI

2010-06-11 Thread Lloyd Standish
I agree. That's one of the reasons I wrote snap2. Users do not have to know what a hard link is to use the program, nor touch any configuration files, nor use the command line. When accessing the snapshot backups on the backup media, the fact that most of the files are hard-linked together

Re: RFS: 'snap2' rsync-based backup program with GUI

2010-06-11 Thread Lloyd Standish
Hello Thomas, Yes, I mean arch independent due to the fact that it is written in bash, an interpreted language. What I am pointing out is that anyone who downloads the binary deb package has all the source that I do. But, again, I understand the rules for a separate source package, and I'll

Re: RFS: 'snap2' rsync-based backup program with GUI

2010-06-11 Thread Lloyd Standish
Hi, Since my snap2 source is debianized, I though maybe this could be a Debian native package, and avoid the diff.gz entirely. However, in the debian-mentors FAQ by Matthew Palmer (http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html) I see the following advice: When to use a native vs