Bug#809136: Block borgbackup migration to stable for now

2016-01-09 Thread Danny Edel
Hello Antoine, thank you for your detailed answer. I will try to address inline. On 01/08/2016 10:45 PM, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > Borg has actually shown great API stability since it forked from > Attic. The change that occured was necessary, and was well documented > in the release notes and

Bug#809136: Block borgbackup migration to stable for now

2016-01-09 Thread Antoine Beaupré
On 2016-01-09 05:24:41, Danny Edel wrote: > Hello Antoine, > > thank you for your detailed answer. I will try to address inline. > > On 01/08/2016 10:45 PM, Antoine Beaupré wrote: >> Borg has actually shown great API stability since it forked from >> Attic. The change that occured was necessary,

Bug#809136: Block borgbackup migration to stable for now

2016-01-09 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi Antoine, >Both as a user and developer of borg backup, I disagree with some of >the comments made of borg in this bug report. wonderful :) (I really like when somebody disagree/complains, it usually they care and want to have better tools) >Borg has actually shown great API stability since

Bug#809136: Block borgbackup migration to stable for now

2016-01-09 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
BTW Antoine, would you consider joining the packaging team? A DD, user, and upstream developer is so much appreciated :) cheers! Gianfranco

Bug#809136: Block borgbackup migration to stable for now

2016-01-09 Thread Antoine Beaupré
On 2016-01-09 05:43:57, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: [...] >>Furthermore, it's very likely that borg 1.0 gets released before >>stretch, so all those arguments will be completely irrelevant because >>borg *will* be API stable. > > this would fix the issue once for all To be fair, while this

Bug#809136: Block borgbackup migration to stable for now

2016-01-09 Thread Antoine Beaupré
On 2016-01-09 05:49:36, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > BTW Antoine, > > > would you consider joining the packaging team? A DD, user, and upstream > developer > is so much appreciated :) regarding that, i consider myself as part of the team, already, in a way. :p I have participated in the WNPP

Bug#809136: Block borgbackup migration to stable for now

2016-01-09 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, >regarding that, i consider myself as part of the team, already, in a >way. :p I have participated in the WNPP and will contribute as much as I >can to keep the package in shape. > >However, I can't commit much more than scratching my own itch... You can >count on me to be on your toes with

Bug#809136: Block borgbackup migration to stable for now

2016-01-09 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi again :) >To be fair, while this will fix the issue for a while, we shouldn't >attach a sense of eternity to this resolution. :) At some point, 1.0 >will stop being supported in borg, and stretch will stop being supported >in Debian. If anyone here is still running lenny boxes, you know what

Bug#809136: Block borgbackup migration to stable for now

2016-01-08 Thread Antoine Beaupré
Source: borgbackup Followup-For: Bug #809136 [TL;DR: keep borg in testing. let it be released with stable when streth gets released. use backports to ensure compatibility works across debian releases, if necessary (and it is not, right now!).] Both as a user and developer of borg backup, I