Re: Removing the attic package

[ng0]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:

> 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
>

There has been no update since 2015. Can the current status of the bug
(solved? unsolved? wontfix? work in progress?) be requested from the
upstream developer(s)?
Otherwise the bug reads like we should include it in our package
description, pointing out that it is currently limited to 15GB backup
(if that's what this was about, I did not read all of it).
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