Re: Superseded packages

[Leo Famulari]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:46:34PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > I'm not sure about Attic / Borg. Superseding attic will break
> > automation, although I did that when I made letsencrypt inherit from
> > certbot. Also, the authors are different. Advice?
> 
> I would make Borg supersede Attic.  However, if Borg does not provide,
> say, an ‘attic’ command, which would make it incompatible by default, we
> may want to change the Borg package to include such a command.

There are other incompatibilities, for example in the repository format.
Borg provides a `borg upgrade` tool that performs a one-way conversion
of Attic repos to Borg repos. Just creating an 'attic -> borg' alias
would not be enough; any automated backup scripts would still fail.