Re: Co-maintaining Request For rdiff-backup-fs

Dear Patrik,

Wishing you a happy new year!

I didn't hear from you, so I thought to touch base with you.

From your last email, I sensed that you have plans for rdiff-backup.

Please share, so I can align with them within my available bandwidth.

I am still interested in co-maintaining rdiff-backup-fs,  so the package
has:
1. Releases or tags.
2 Fixes available on the debian side.
3.New feature development.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,
Syed Shahrukh Hussain.





On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 4:34=E2=80=AFPM Patrik Dufresne <info@patrikdufresn=
e.com>
wrote:

> Hello Syed,
>
> Thank you for reaching out, and you are certainly welcome to take over
> work on the project. rdiff-backup-fs was originally salvaged by Eric as
> part of an effort to centralize everything related to rdiff-backup, but i=
t
> hasn=E2=80=99t received much attention since then.
>
> Before moving forward, I would appreciate a bit more background so we can
> better understand your plans.
>
>    - What level of involvement are you expecting to have in the project?
>    - Will you be focusing only on maintaining the Debian packaging, or do
>    you intend to work on the codebase upstream as well?
>    - Do you also plan to contribute to rdiff-backup itself? Any help
>    there would be greatly appreciated.
>
> For context, I=E2=80=99m also developing Rdiffweb and Minarca Data Backup=
, both of
> which rely heavily on rdiff-backup. However, I haven=E2=80=99t had as muc=
h time
> recently to contribute to the core project as I would like, which is why
> additional maintainers would be very welcome.
>
> Looking forward to hearing more about your intentions and how you envisio=
n
> your role.
>
> Could you also share with us some other work you have done ?
>
> Best regards,
> On 12/16/25 09:59, Syed Shahrukh wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am a Debian contributor trying to salvage rdiff-backup-fs on Debian
>
> I am reaching for co-maintenance of rdiff-backup-fs upstream for long ter=
m
> maintenance.
> https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-fs
>
> Present state of the repository is not suitable for future debian packagi=
ng.
>
> Like tags are not imported from the hg repo like in another fork.
> https://github.com/gruszczy/rdiff-backup-fs
>
> Your help ensures fixes are forwarded upstream with periodic releases of
> rdiff-backup-fs.
>
> There is a new PR from downstream:https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-b=
ackup-fs/pulls
>
> Regards,
> Syed Shahrukh Hussain.
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