[pkg-bacula-devel] Backport of Bacula 7 on Debian jessie

[Konstantin Khomoutov]

On Fri, 12 Aug 2016 17:30:21 +0200
Sven Hartge <sven at svenhartge.de> wrote:

[...]
> >>> On Debian jessie version we can find Bacula 5, but i really need
> >>> the latest version 7. 
[...]
> >> the backport is very high on our todo-list, but at the moment I am
> >> only 99% comfortable to make the current version available to
> >> jessie-backports.
> >>
> >> Some more testing is needed to remove that last 1% of doubt.
> > 
> > If possible, I'd suggest building the set of packages for the most
> > popular architecture (amd64) and upload them somewhere.  There will
> > be a chance interested folks will actually test them (announcement
> > on the main bacula-users list would be a good move, too).
> 
> We have an internal backported package, but there were some problems
> while testing them.
> 
> Until we know if this problem was specific to the system they were
> tested on or a general problem with the package, we rather not release
> something which may destroy data in the worst case.

I, for one, really appreciate this attitude to packaging work.

Kudos to the team!