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* Removing the attic package
@ 2016-09-04  2:12 Leo Famulari
  2016-09-04 13:10 ` ng0
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 20+ messages in thread
From: Leo Famulari @ 2016-09-04  2:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guix-devel

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

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2016-09-04  2:12 Removing the attic package Leo Famulari
2016-09-04 13:10 ` ng0
2016-09-04 18:44   ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-05  8:20     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-05  8:34       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-09-05  9:29       ` Efraim Flashner
2016-09-05 10:05         ` ng0
2016-09-05 10:20           ` ng0
2016-09-06 21:36       ` Superseded packages Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-10 17:25         ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-11 13:46           ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-11 15:19             ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-11 20:39               ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-20 21:18                 ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-24  2:14                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-25 16:42                     ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-26  9:44                       ` Efraim Flashner
2016-09-27 21:39                         ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-28  8:44                       ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-28 17:58                         ` Leo Famulari

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