Subject: bug#32482: closed (Re: [bug#32482] [PATCH] gnu: obnam: Add deprecation warning.)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 19:18:02 +0000

Your bug report

#32482: [PATCH] gnu: obnam: Add deprecation warning.

which was filed against the guix-patches package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: [bug#32482] [PATCH] gnu: obnam: Add deprecation warning.
From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 21:17:49 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email-masked]> wrote:
> * gnu/packages/backup.scm (obnam)[synopsis, description]: Note 
> its
> retirement.

Pushed as a93de1ae9efbed3270967eda59b1dd1078c0213b.
 
Kind regards,

T G-R

Subject: [PATCH] gnu: obnam: Add deprecation warning.
From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 17:42:34 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

* gnu/packages/backup.scm (obnam)[synopsis, description]: Note its
retirement.
---

Guix!

A bit silly since the package fails to build anyway[0]. I'm not capable nor willing to fix it. Debian's (actually, upstream's) ‘solution’ was simply to remove the package[0].

I'd rather follow their example if nobody steps up to fix it, but Leo[1] made a good point about removing backup tools that may be someone's only link to the past.

An alternative is to add a prominent deprecation warning to our obnam package. Something like this. There's no clear successor or alternative to use with DEPRECATED-PACKAGE.

Let me know if and what you think,

T G-R

[0]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=877159
[1]: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=32303#13

 gnu/packages/backup.scm | 15 +++++++++------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/backup.scm b/gnu/packages/backup.scm
index 754dfa1a4..978505914 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/backup.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/backup.scm
@@ -749,12 +749,15 @@ NTFS volumes using @code{ntfs-3g}, preserving NTFS-specific attributes.")
        ("python2-pep8" ,python2-pep8)
        ("python2-pylint" ,python2-pylint)))
     (home-page "https://obnam.org/")
-    (synopsis "Easy and secure backup program")
-    (description "Obnam is an easy, secure backup program.  Features
-include snapshot backups, data de-duplication and encrypted backups
-using GnuPG.  Backups can be stored on local hard disks, or online via
-the SSH SFTP protocol.  The backup server, if used, does not require
-any special software, on top of SSH.")
+    (synopsis "Retired backup program")
+    (description
+     "Warning: @uref{https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2017/08/13/retiring_obnam/,
+the Obnam project is retired}.  You should use another backup solution instead.
+
+Obnam was an easy, secure backup program.  Features included snapshot backups,
+data de-duplication and encrypted backups using GnuPG.  Backups can be stored on
+local hard disks, or online via the SSH SFTP protocol.  The backup server, if
+used, does not require any special software, on top of SSH.")
     (license license:gpl3+)))
 
 (define-public dirvish
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