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

[Sven Hartge]

On 12.08.2016 16:44, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote:
> 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).

We have an internal backported package, but there were some problems
while testing them.

Until we know if this problem was specific to the system they were
tested on or a general problem with the package, we rather not release
something which may destroy data in the worst case.

Grüße,
Sven.

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