Re: Debian
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 :-)
>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)
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)
> 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.
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]
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.
>
>
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
[1] http://packages.debian.org/bacula
[2] http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl? \
searchon=names&version=all&exact=1&keywords=bacula
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