Thursday, October 25, 2018

Re: fix HOMEPAGE of sysutils/faubackup

On Thu, Oct 25 2018, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri <andreas.kahari@nbis.se> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 12:05:40PM +0200, Solene Rapenne wrote:
>> "Anthony J. Bentley" <anthony@anjbe.name> wrote:
>> > Solene Rapenne writes:
>> > >
>> > > faubackup homepage is not working anymore.
>> >
>> > Any idea what to use for MASTER_SITES?
>>
>> indeed, it doesn't work either.
>> Seems that the project homepage doesn't provide sources :(
>>
>
> FWIW, Debian says it's dead upstream and removed it in 2016.
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/faubackup/+publishinghistory

Actually Ubuntu removed it in 2016, Debian removed it in 2010.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520013

* Package is orphaned.
* Dead upstream (Upstream author abandoned development).
* No development activity since 2006.
* Better alternatives (vbackup, dirvish).

I suggest we do the same.

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