From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Removing the attic package Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2016 22:12:56 -0400 Message-ID: <20160904021256.GA21539@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50191) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bgMvp-0006yp-6z for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2016 22:13:14 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bgMvk-00051U-UG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2016 22:13:12 -0400 Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:38902) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bgMvi-00051N-SY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2016 22:13:08 -0400 Received: from localhost (67.107.250.250.ptr.us.xo.net [67.107.250.250]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 6A19ACCDCB for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2016 22:12:57 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org The Attic backup program [0] has a serious problem, and I think we should consider removing our package of it. The problem is that Attic appears to be unmaintained since it was forked as "Borg". For almost 11 months, there has been no response from the Attic maintainer to a bug that unrecoverably corrupts the backup repository when the disk becomes full [1]. Of course, this situation is not acceptable for "backup" software. Debian has stopped packaging Attic in response [2]. At the very least, I think we should add a strong warning to the package description and synopsis. [0] https://attic-backup.org/ [1] https://github.com/jborg/attic/issues/356 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802619