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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Eric Bavier <ericbavier@gmail.com>
Cc: Guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Add hdup.
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 17:53:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fvjr6z5r.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k394p8oj.fsf@member.fsf.org> (Eric Bavier's message of "Thu, 29 May 2014 16:38:20 -0500")

Eric Bavier <ericbavier@gmail.com> skribis:

> From 3a0fe0fa0674f48cb996d80f97dc54815405a9d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>
> Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 16:35:12 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Add hdup.
>
> * gnu/packages/backup.scm (hdup): New variable.

Minor issues:

> +      (method url-fetch)
> +      ;; Source tarballs are not versioned
> +      (uri "http://archive.miek.nl/projects/hdup2/hdup.tar.bz2")

Bonus points if you get the maintainer(s) to use versioned tarballs.  :-)

> +    (synopsis "The little, spiffy, backup tool")

A bit marketingish and not very descriptive IMO; how about “Simple
incremental backup tool”?

> +    (description
> +     "Hdup2 is a backup utilty, it's aim is to make backup really simple.  The

“its”

> +backup scheduling is done by means of a cronjob.  It supports an

“cron job”

OK to push with these changes.

Thanks!

Ludo’.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-30 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-29 21:38 [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Add hdup Eric Bavier
2014-05-30  7:28 ` Andreas Enge
2014-05-30 17:40   ` Eric Bavier
2014-05-30 15:53 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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