Re: Bug#815675: ITP: ftpbackup -- Script to backups your data from a Debian system to a ftp space

[Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>]

On Feb 23 2016, Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> wrote:
> On Feb 23 2016, Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 at 15:45:59 +0100, Carl Chenet wrote:
>>>   Description     : Script to backup your data from a Debian system to a ftp space
>>
>> Backups via ftp? In 2016?
>>
>> I don't think Debian should be encouraging backups that don't have
> [...]
>
> Also, we are talking about a buggy 47 line shell script (just having
> whitespace in the destination directory will lead to a crash, set -e is
> not used, and errors are redirected to /dev/null).

I'm actually rather shocked that a Debian Developer would consider
letting this into the archive. Carl, I hope you just filed the ITP
before having looked at the program?


Best,
-Nikolaus

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