[pkg-bacula-devel] Contribution

[Carsten Leonhardt]

Hi Mario,

Mario Pranjic <mario at pranjic.no> writes:

> 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.

It can only be your own decision what's worth spending effort for, and
what not. So if you need or want S3 support rather sooner than later,
you are more than welcome to give packaging it a try.

Here starts one of our previous discussions about libs3:

https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-bacula-devel/2020-June/003017.html

I've sent an ITP for it:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=962918

Nobody complained there. The next step would be to create a package good
enough to upload to unstable, or at least experimental. Then the package
needs to clear the NEW-queue by getting approval by the FTP-masters.

Do you already have an account on salsa.debian.org?

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

You may want to subscribe to this mailing list, if you haven't
already. This is where we coordinate.

"We" currrently are Sven and me.

The bacula packages in Debian were effectively unmaintained some years
ago. I picked them up and got them into shape again and later Sven
joined.

Regards,

Carsten