[pkg-bacula-devel] Incomplete upload found in Debian upload queue

[Bart Swedrowski]

Hi Luca,

Thanks for reply.  All advice is much appreciated.

First, few in-line answers:

On 22 June 2012 11:43, Luca Capello <luca at pca.it> wrote:
> Please do not Cc: me, I read the list.

I did not CC you, I actually sent the email to you (To: luca…) and
CCed the list.  This way, MUA or better web clients (like Gmail) can
mark the message as important as it’s directed to you.  Quite a lot of
mailing lists allows this kind of practice, but since you’ve been here
quite a while I take it’s not welcomed here.  I’ll change that :-).

> Thank you for an apt-get repository, two notes:
>
> 1) the Release file is not signed
>
>     <http://people.debian.org/~gismo/debian/dput.cf>
>     <http://people.debian.org/~gismo/debian/mini-dinstall_sign-release-remote.sh>

Thanks, I’ve fixed that :-).

> 2) you should not use official Debian distribution names in your
>   repository setup, because someone using your packages without pay
>   attention will (automatically) get updates from them.  Use "fake"
>   names instead, like bart-$OFFICIALNAME, and aliases (the package will
>   be the same (thus with an official name)

Yeah, makes sense.  I’ll get that changed, as well.

> PS, I hope you are not getting my remark as negative points, actually it
>    is the other way around: thank you for stepping up and helping the
>    pkg-bacula team!

Not at all.  I’m quite new to Debian official processes and rules,
even though I’ve been building packages for my private repos for quite
a while (few years actually!).  I’ll appreciate any tips or pointers.

I’ve made the changes and created branch on Alioth as well as tagged
5.2.6+dfsg-1~bpo60+1.  Packages I’ve built from that tag are working
like a charm on all of my 12 servers (in next few months I’ll be
rolling out Bacula in my work place where there’s 200+ machines
that’ll be backed up).
I guess if you manage to fix that aforementioned bug, I’ll just merge
that commit with squeeze-backports branch, tag it again, test and
it’ll be ready for backports.d.o as soon as it reaches testing.

Thanks again!