Bug#792096: RFP: borgbackup -- deduplicating and compressing backup program)

[Danny Edel <debian@danny-edel.de>]

On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:14:35 +0200 Danny Edel wrote:
> I am currently working on a proof-of-concept version of d/rules doing
> all of that, I will report back here once I've got a working draft.

I have pushed a working packaging to github. It's not of
release-quality, but it should serve as a proof-of-concept for building
from git tags.

git clone git://github.com/dannyedel/pkg-borgbackup.git
gbp buildpackage -uc -us [-S/-b]

Browse: https://github.com/dannyedel/pkg-borgbackup

Things left to do/discuss:

* Lintian notices that the binaries are not properly hardened. I've
tried including /usr/share/dpkg/buildflags.mk, but enabling pie in the
hardening options breaks the build on the cython files. I am not sure
what's the right course of action here.

* If we symlink borg to borgbackup (like the package name), lintian
complains that /usr/bin/borgbackup has no manpage. Do we also symlink
the manpage or is there a special syntax to say "load 'man borg' when
someone types 'man borgbackup'"?


Just to make clear, I don't think this packaging is ready for production
use as-is.  It's meant as a proof-of-concept of building from the
minimal set of source files (i.e. the ones versioned in git), using
debian packaged versions of cython and sphinx to re-generate the rest.
If you also think that's a good idea, please use as much or as little as
seems appropriate.


Danny