[pkg-bacula-devel] Backport of Bacula 7 on Debian jessie

[Konstantin Khomoutov]

On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 17:32:58 +0200
Carsten Leonhardt <leo at debian.org> wrote:

> > On Debian jessie version we can find Bacula 5, but i really need
> > the latest version 7. 
> >
> > I think it’s better to do a backport of this one, is it exist ? or
> > i can propose my help to do it if you have any procedure to
> > generate deb files ?
> 
> the backport is very high on our todo-list, but at the moment I am
> only 99% comfortable to make the current version available to
> jessie-backports.
> 
> Some more testing is needed to remove that last 1% of doubt.

If possible, I'd suggest building the set of packages for the most
popular architecture (amd64) and upload them somewhere.  There will be
a chance interested folks will actually test them (announcement on the
main bacula-users list would be a good move, too).

I mean, most of those who'd like to test the new stuff are not up to
the task of building them.