[pkg-bacula-devel] Contribution

[Sven Hartge]

On 13.09.20 11:26, Mario Pranjic wrote:

> I am interested in contributing in packaging Bacula for Debian, along
> with the cloud driver.
> 
> By checking buster-backports, I see working version of Bacula 9.6.5
> (tested, working ok), but no cloud driver.
> 
> Can someone onboard me into the project? How can I be of assistance?
> 
> I have a fairly good understanding of Debian package manager, years of
> experience with all sorts of UNIX/Linux versions ans flavors, but didn't
> contribute to Debian packaging so far (hence the question for onboarding).


The cloud driver was excluded because it uses a special forked libs3
from Bacula Systems, which has not yet been included in Debian, mostly
because the code base is old, insecure, more-or-less unmaintained and
duplicates the existing (but incompatible) libs3.

The latter means there would be a special dispensation needed from the
Release-Managers, the Security-Team and possibly the FTP-Masters.

In addition to that Kern hinted that Bacula Systems might rewrite the
Cloud Driver using the official SDK, making efforts to include the
current Cloud Driver wasted.

Grüße,
Sven.

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