[pkg-bacula-devel] Contribution

[Mario Pranjic]

Hi Sven,

Thanks for status update.

The thing is: various cloud providers tend to point out Bacula supports
S3 storage "out of the box" and, then suddenly it becomes clear it is
only Enterprise edition providing the working driver.
Community version contains "sort of cloud driver", but, not very
promising at this stage.
This is sad news since I know at least one potential big client who
decided to stop the pilot due to complications with cloud driver.

Regardless, my offer to help in any way I can in regards to packaging
Bacula for Debian still stands.*
*

Best regards,

*--
Mario Pranjic*



On 9/14/20 3:21 AM, Sven Hartge wrote:
> 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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