Hi Stefanos, On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:53:12 +0200 Stefanos Harhalakis <v13@v13.gr> wrote: > My name is Stefanos Harhalakis and I'm a sysadmin at TEI of > Thessaloniki, Greece. I'm looking for a sponsor for a program of mine > (I've also created the debian package). This is a new package: > > Name: vbackup > License: GPLv2. May be changed to GPLv3. > Version: 0.1.4 > Author: Stefanos Harhalakis <v13@v13.gr> (that's me) > URL: http://www.it.teithe.gr/~v13/vbackup/ > ITP: 458340 > deb: > http://hydra.it.teithe.gr/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-all/admin/vbackup_0.1.4-2_all.deb You have to provide your source package link (.dsc file), in your case: http://hydra.it.teithe.gr/debian/dists/unstable/main/source/admin/vbackup_0.1.4-2.dsc > vbackup is a modular backup program. It is a set of scripts that can > perform full or incremental system backups. Currently it supports: > * Filesystem backups using tar > * XFS backups using xfsdump > * PostgreSQL backups > * MySQL backups > * dpkg package list backups > and can be easily extended to do other things. AFAIK there's several backup script packages in Debian, which makes yours better/different from the others? > I'm using parts of this program to backup some of our systems for the > last 2+ years. The program is developed by me and I'm developing it for > our needs (currently, it is going to backup 8 systems). I've already > packaged it and created a mini repository to ease the installation on > those systems (7 of them are running debian). Since I'm the original > author of the program and I'm depending on debian packages for using this > program in our systems, I believe that this package will not become easily > unmaintained. That's good :) > The reason I've created vbackup and I'm seeking for debian inclusion is > that I believe that there is no similar backup program available. vbackup > is opensource, very simple to setup, very easy to extend and it is shell > script based. Belief is not enough, IMHO. At least you should do some little research among existing backup packages of the same category and show us that yours is different. > The package almost passes the lintian check and fully passes the linda > check. There is a problem with the rules file because there are commands > listed in arch-binary instead of arch-indep (the package is for > architecture: all) but I'm not 100% sure about how to correctly correct > this. There is also a (I believe) bogus warning that lintian reports: Currently your package doesn't build under pbuilder because clean target assumes too much: you have to replace your «$(MAKE) distclean» in debian/rules by «[ ! -f Makefile ] || $(MAKE) distclean» or similar. Lintian warnings are not bogus: > W: vbackup source: binary-arch-rules-but-pkg-is-arch-indep You have to move binary-arch rules to binary-indep, as no arch-dependent packages are built. There's also a lot of commented lines from template in rules, these are there to be removed if not used. > W: vbackup source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.7.2 (current is 3.7.3) Change the Standards-Version field to the current one (3.7.3, of course :) Seems dh-make templates are still not updated. There's also a couple of informative messages you may want to fix (give and additional -I flag to lintian to discover them). > I could not register vbackup with the sponsors.debian.net site. I've > created the ITP (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=458340) > using reportbug but the site keep saying: > > ----- > Connecting to bugs database... done > Searching database... done > > Some errors occured: > ITP/ITA number 458340 doesn't have the phrase "ITP: vbackup" or "ITA: > vbackup" in the title > ----- > while the ITP bug report actually has this in the title. Any suggestions > with that? I'm afraid none :( -- Ricardo Mones http://people.debian.org/~mones «You have an ambitious nature and may make a name for yourself.»
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