Bug#1019139: ITP: zpaqfranz -- Swiss army knife for backup and disaster recovery

[Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org>]

X-Debbugs-Cc: skitt@debian.org

On Sun, 04 Sep 2022 14:53:45 +0200 root <franco@francocorbelli.com> wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Franco Corbelli <franco@francocorbelli.com>
>
> * Package name    : zpaqfranz
>   Version         : 55.14
>   Upstream Author : Franco Corbelli <franco@francocorbelli.com>
> * URL             : https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz
> * License         : MIT
>   Programming Lang: C, C++
>   Description     : Swiss army knife for backup and disaster recovery
>
> Like 7z or RAR on steroids,with deduplicated "snapshots" (versions)
> Conceptually similar to Mac time machine, but much more efficiently
> Keeps backup always-to-always, no need to ever prune (CryptoLocker)
> Easily handles millions of files and TBs of data, non-latin support
> Cloud backups with full encryption, minimal data transfer/bandwidth
> Data integrity check CRC32+XXHASH|SHA-1|SHA-2|SHA-3|MD5|XXH3|BLAKE3
> Thorough data verification, multithread support (real world 1GB+/s)
> Specific zfs handling functions,full multiplatform interoperability
> Particularly suitable for minimal space storage of virtual machines
>
> Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, MacOS, Solaris, OmniOS and others
>
>
> __________________
> This is a fork of zpaq 7.15 (already in Debian) which was abandoned 
> by the developer (Matt Mahoney) in 2016.

As zpaqfranz is supposed to be a compatible replacement for zpaq,
I suggest to make it the new upstream of the existing zpaq package.

Stephen, any opinions on this?