On Tuesday 07 June 2005 11:20, José Luis Tallón wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I've just been looking at the new Debian Sarge release 3.1, and it looks > > very interesting. I'm not 100% happy with my Fedora FC3 system, so am > > thinking about loading it here and trying it out. It is quite a learning > > process though needing a lot of time ... :-) > > Well, i will be more than happy to help you with that, if you so desire :-)
OK, thanks. I'm downloading the first 4 isos with jigdo at the moment. I'm also reading the installation notes (rather large). > > >However, in looking through the packages, I see that they distribute just > >about every backup package that exists, *except* Bacula. Can you tell me > > why Bacula is not on their list? > > Sorry, Kern... but which list have you looked up in? > (this is so that we can have it corrected as soon as possible) I looked in "Utilities" where it says backup programs live. I found Amanda and afbackup there. Then I though I looked in both the compressed and uncompressed lists for 3.1 Sarge and did not find it. Well, after Marius provided the link, I found it was in "Administration Utilities" AND it is also in both the full compressed and uncompressed lists. I was just dumb and missed it. > > Bacula has indeed been released with Debian 3.1 "Sarge": version > 1.36.2-2sarge1 [1] or [2] (which is, as you might remember, 1.36.2 with > all fixes from 1.36.3 backported to it) Oh, nice! Thanks. > > > If not, can you tell me who I should talk to > >about resolving any problems they may have with Bacula? > > There are none, don't you worry. > The only problems we had previously (due to license incompatibilities), > you solved them very promptly and appropiately, by making a small > license change(the exception to allow linking OpenSSL in, even though it > is GPL-incompatible); This was almost a year ago. OK thanks. I'm not worrying any more. > > Since then, the only times when Bacula has not been included in the > "candidate" set of packages (the /testing/ distribution) have been those > when i had problems solving problems with the auto-configuration > scripts; Even then, those were just about three times in the last couple > of years [since i packaged and started maintaining Bacula for Debian] OK, this is no problem. It is normal that there are a few minor delays. I prefer that it installs correctly rather than worrying about deadlines. > In fact, that is the reason why i hardly ever update the DEBs in > SourceForge anymore: it is usually much more convenient for users to > apt-get them. However, i still upload "snapshots" when i am satisfied > with their quality --which does not happen so often--, so as to have > another backup. > Thanks. > >Thanks. > > Thank you, indeed, for your contribution to Free Software. > This release is a bit better just by including your work, Bacula -- just > like it is because of the remaining circa nine thousand packages. > > > Kind regards, > José Luis Tallón Thanks again for all your work on packaging Bacula. Hopefully, I'll learn how you build your debs ... :-) > > > [1] http://packages.debian.org/bacula > [2] http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl? \ > searchon=names&version=all&exact=1&keywords=bacula -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V
