Bug#729069: rsync: Please provide an rsync udeb

[Samuel Henrique]

Control: tag -1 - pending

Hello,

Unfortunately, with the latest releases of rsync there was additions
of new dependencies, for which there are no udebs.

This means that either rsync needs to be built twice or the deps needs
to provide udebs for rsync-udeb to be packaged, so I will put this bug
on hold for now.

This issue also led me thinking whether it's a good idea to do this
from a packaging POV, as it might block/delay packaging of future
rsync releases due to the complexity of our build system, which
doesn't play nice with this kind of usecase (to provide two different
builds of the same project).

I did not give up on this yet, but there's no progress being made at this point.

Regards,

-- 
Samuel Henrique 

Bug#729069: rsync: Please provide an rsync udeb

[Ian Campbell]

Package: rsync
Version: 3.0.9-4
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

Being able to anna-install rsync (or rsync-udeb) would occasionally be very
useful when using d-i in rescue mode. I had a collegue asking how to get this 
working yesterday and thinking back there have been occasions where I would 
have liked it too.

In the absence of the udeb things like
http://lackof.org/taggart/hacking/d-i-tricks/ "Cloning another system via
rsync/ssh" get suggested, which (I suppose, I usually end up finding some
other way to rescue the system) work but are not all that convenient.

It may be that rsync would require lots of libraries which are not present in
the d-i environment, in which case I'd understand if you were to close this
won't fix (actually, I'd quite understand that in the general case too).

Thanks,
Ian.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages rsync depends on:
ii  base-files  7.2
ii  libacl1 2.2.52-1
ii  libc6   2.17-92+b1
ii  libpopt01.16-7
ii  lsb-base4.1+Debian12

rsync recommends no packages.

Versions of packages rsync suggests:
ii  openssh-client  1:6.2p2-6
ii  openssh-server  1:6.2p2-6

-- no debconf information


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