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Package: wnpp
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I intend to hijack the Bacula package. I posted the reasons to
debian-devel. That post is available at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/05/msg00260.html and
is reproduced here.
The maintainer in question also has unaddressed RC bugs for other
packages (such as progsreiserfs)
Copying the MIA people per suggestion from #debian-devel.
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Hello,
I intend to take over the Bacula package. I would first like to say
thanks to Jose Luis Tallon for initially packaging it for Debian and
maintaining it for these years.
A brief history of why I intend to do this:
* Bacula has had RC bugs open for more than a year. It was removed
from testing several months ago because of this.
* Bacula's current maintainer is not a Debian Developer and has been
in NM since 2003.
* Bacula as it currently exists in sid is unbuildable and
uninstallable. Bacula will not be present in etch unless significant
problems are fixed.
* The last upload for Bacula was almost a year ago.
* The maintainer has repeatedly, over the last year, said he's working
on this but hasn't made much real progress, and has made no upload to
Debian.
* Several additional critical-level or grave-level unreported bugs
exist in the bacula Debian source tree (such as stopping database servers
without permission and deleting files un-owned by a particular package)
* There are various policy compliance issues with the current packages.
* The current maintainer does respond to pings, but has a long record
of problems getting bugs (even RC bugs) fixed in a timely fashion.
I have already prepared an NMU that fixes 22 bugs, including all four RC
bugs. I have tagged those bugs as pending. This release is currently
sitting in NEW. I also prepared subsequent NMUs that fix critical, but
unreported, bugs in the Debian Bacula packages.
Fixing the rest of the problems with Bacula requires a level of work
that is not really appropriate for an NMU. I have discussed the
situation with Jose's AM, Stephen Frost, who encouraged me to hijack the
package. I have also discussed the situation on #debian-devel, and
consensus there seemed to be that a hijack was warranted.
Finally, I should add that we intend to use Bacula at my workplace and
have made the fixes already made to Bacula as part of my job. We will
be using it in a production environment, and I do not want to do that
until I can trust the Bacula packages to work right. We will be backing
up 2-5TB of data across Debian, AIX, and Windows servers to a 48-tape
LTO3 library. In short, I will be maintaining working Bacula packages
anyway, and I might as well upload them to Debian.
I also e-mailed Jose about the situation, offering to adopt Bacula, on
April 27, but have not yet received a reply to that message.
-- John
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Source: bacula
Source-Version: 1.38.9-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
bacula, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
bacula-client_1.38.9-1_all.deb
to pool/main/b/bacula/bacula-client_1.38.9-1_all.deb
bacula-common_1.38.9-1_all.deb
to pool/main/b/bacula/bacula-common_1.38.9-1_all.deb
bacula-console-gnome_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
to pool/main/b/bacula/bacula-console-gnome_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
bacula-console-wx_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
to pool/main/b/bacula/bacula-console-wx_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
bacula-console_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
to pool/main/b/bacula/bacula-console_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
bacula-director-common_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
to pool/main/b/bacula/bacula-director-common_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
bacula-director-mysql_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
to pool/main/b/bacula/bacula-director-mysql_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
bacula-director-pgsql_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
to pool/main/b/bacula/bacula-director-pgsql_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
bacula-director-sqlite3_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
to pool/main/b/bacula/bacula-director-sqlite3_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
bacula-director-sqlite_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
to pool/main/b/bacula/bacula-director-sqlite_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
bacula-fd_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
to pool/main/b/bacula/bacula-fd_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
bacula-sd-mysql_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
to pool/main/b/bacula/bacula-sd-mysql_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
bacula-sd-pgsql_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
to pool/main/b/bacula/bacula-sd-pgsql_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
bacula-sd-sqlite3_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
to pool/main/b/bacula/bacula-sd-sqlite3_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
bacula-sd-sqlite_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
to pool/main/b/bacula/bacula-sd-sqlite_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
bacula-sd_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
to pool/main/b/bacula/bacula-sd_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
bacula-server_1.38.9-1_all.deb
to pool/main/b/bacula/bacula-server_1.38.9-1_all.deb
bacula-traymonitor_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
to pool/main/b/bacula/bacula-traymonitor_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
bacula_1.38.9-1.diff.gz
to pool/main/b/bacula/bacula_1.38.9-1.diff.gz
bacula_1.38.9-1.dsc
to pool/main/b/bacula/bacula_1.38.9-1.dsc
bacula_1.38.9-1_all.deb
to pool/main/b/bacula/bacula_1.38.9-1_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 366625@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> (supplier of updated bacula package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)
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Hash: SHA1
Format: 1.7
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 11:16:05 -0500
Source: bacula
Binary: bacula-director-sqlite3 bacula-console bacula-director-sqlite bacula-client bacula-traymonitor bacula-console-gnome bacula bacula-director-pgsql bacula-director-common bacula-fd bacula-console-wx bacula-director-mysql bacula-sd-pgsql bacula-common bacula-server bacula-sd-sqlite bacula-sd bacula-sd-sqlite3 bacula-sd-mysql
Architecture: source i386 all
Version: 1.38.9-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
Changed-By: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
Description:
bacula - Network backup, recovery and verification (Meta-package)
bacula-client - Network backup, recovery and verification (Client meta-package)
bacula-common - Network backup, recovery and verification (Common Support files)
bacula-console - Network backup, recovery and verification (Mgmt. Console)
bacula-console-gnome - Network backup, recovery and verification (Console, Gnome version
bacula-console-wx - Network backup, recovery and verification (Console, Gnome version
bacula-director-common - Network backup, recovery and verification (Director common files)
bacula-director-mysql - Network backup, recovery and verification (Director daemon)
bacula-director-pgsql - Network backup, recovery and verification (Director daemon)
bacula-director-sqlite - Network backup, recovery and verification (Director daemon)
bacula-director-sqlite3 - Network backup, recovery and verification (Director daemon)
bacula-fd - Network backup, recovery and verification (Filer daemon)
bacula-sd - Network backup, recovery and verification (Storage daemon)
bacula-sd-mysql - Network backup, recovery and verification (SD tools-MySQL)
bacula-sd-pgsql - Network backup, recovery and verification (SD tools-PostgreSQL)
bacula-sd-sqlite - Network backup, recovery and verification (SD tools-SQLite)
bacula-sd-sqlite3 - Network backup, recovery and verification (SD tools-SQLite3)
bacula-server - Network backup, recovery and verification (Server meta-package)
bacula-traymonitor - Network backup, recovery and verification (Tray monitor)
Closes: 281957 303456 303862 305220 309601 312329 314492 322753 326175 326177 326178 329271 331757 335809 337250 337376 339084 339322 339341 343762 346430 357619 358762 366625
Changes:
bacula (1.38.9-1) unstable; urgency=low
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* New maintainer: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>.
Closes: #366625.
Thanks to Jose Luis Tallon for initially packaging and maintaining
Bacula in Debian.
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* Close bugs that have been fixed in my earlier NMUs.
Closes: #322753, #335809, #343762, #326175, #309601, #305220, #329271.
Closes: #326178, #312329, #303456, #339341, #339322, #281957, #331757.
Closes: #358762, #357619, #337250, #337376, #346430, #314492, #303862.
Closes: #339084.
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* Examine all diffs to upstream and revert ones that are not
(any longer) necessary.
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* Revert diff to db.m4 -- Bacula is now aware of pg_config natively.
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* Removed commented-out patching/unpatching code in debian/rules
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* Removed obsolete patch files debian/patches/*.patches,
debian/patches/*old. These were only referenced by commented-out
code in debian/rules.
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* Revert patch to dbd_find.c -- no apparent reason existed for
the change.
.
* Reverted hack to comment in update_mysql_tables_6_to_7
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* Reverted hack to configure checking on syntax
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* Renamed bacula-wxconsole to bacula-console-wx to maintain a
sane naming scheme. Closes: #326177.
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* Removed commented-out bacula-doc section from debian/control.
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* Build-depends on mtx.
.
* Removed commented-out build-depends-indep for docs.
.
* Rewrote debian/rules build system -- now uses suggested vim-like
build system. It calls configure several times and builds the
package for each DB, rather than trying to hack the configure
system to short-circuit that.
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* Use stock make_catalog_backup/delete_catalog_backup scripts,
and move these into the per-db bacula-director-* packages.
.
* Now build Sqlite3 packages (in addition to existing Sqlite v2
packages) and make them the default.
.
* Fix sqlite build-deps. Previous versions build-dep'd on sqlite3
but built using sqlite2.
.
* No longer rename consoles in rules.
.
* Update standards-version to 3.7.0.
.
* Clean target removes config.log
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* Move bcopy and bscan manpages into proper bacula-sd-*sql* packages
.
* Added missing debconf dependencies to the bacula director packages
.
* Added missing adduser dependency to bacula-director-common
.
* Fixed menu files for correct location of console files
Files:
df1381e476786efb3c073cd66fe87407 1283 admin optional bacula_1.38.9-1.dsc
0a2a12b47131e7c86fa4c3c8b943f506 48114 admin optional bacula_1.38.9-1.diff.gz
fc4ddc8dc42801cba7600aae333f3350 44406 admin optional bacula_1.38.9-1_all.deb
7862602ea3a66578f11bcec5ffe8a2b0 90836 admin optional bacula-common_1.38.9-1_all.deb
bf98f459f9b583fa47f39eb323bd5529 42754 admin optional bacula-client_1.38.9-1_all.deb
3dfd2b6f829fb65678105c00fe2b5b22 42860 admin optional bacula-server_1.38.9-1_all.deb
b8987fee10688817c0a72890762592f7 116270 admin optional bacula-director-common_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
1166fe34d61b9c64dc11c87b33043b87 551008 admin optional bacula-director-sqlite_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
84af64d6aea0b77ad0c54557fd5bf5a7 550850 admin optional bacula-director-sqlite3_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
e94a220264b95ed1f62b4d570d1dd3f6 555338 admin optional bacula-director-mysql_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
eeb319b02080f67d9ce2cbf206eed7f8 562020 admin optional bacula-director-pgsql_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
0969ecb11b0d70df581e0bcb9b65debe 175830 admin optional bacula-fd_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
909053dce0a349b9b76ca214d10df6f6 763390 admin optional bacula-sd_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
ca7782a0d0218702bf92de0ab58c4c2e 387004 admin optional bacula-sd-sqlite3_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
1f0997fe4da1e57b3090a479849d5af7 387070 admin optional bacula-sd-sqlite_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
fc05b919ce8fbe96dded16f68f682978 387600 admin optional bacula-sd-mysql_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
7ac856e10e9b0a3a18751d271b8d39f6 389508 admin optional bacula-sd-pgsql_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
9994bb83a19264723cf19922335dd64f 128350 admin optional bacula-console_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
6a7a4185722f3a2be80aa993e6d8bbe3 151898 admin optional bacula-console-gnome_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
98ed387f3eaa92d437e7be7c97fdfb81 230662 admin optional bacula-console-wx_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
58ace4a91947ced7117a5c28b9674854 136630 admin optional bacula-traymonitor_1.38.9-1_i386.deb
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