• Searching a sponsor for zpaq fork

    From Dott. Franco Corbelli@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 5 17:40:02 2023
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    I would like to know, please, if there is any Debian developer
    interested (with some free time) in including a fork of the zpaq
    archiving program, abandonware from 2016.

    The maintainer of zpaq (S.Kitt) follows many packages and I think he's
    very busy, maybe too busy to help me.

    I have tried cyclically over the past two years, without succeeding.

    Since there is already a Debian package in the codebase and my software
    is (almost) a drop-in replacement it should be fairly easy to modify
    what is present (i.e. not taking much time) from this https://salsa.debian.org/debian/zpaq

    To meet Debian requirements (no binaries inside the source) I have
    prepared a version that, while not being able to automatically verify operational on "strange" systems (PowerPC, sparc etc) should be adherent
    to Debian requirements https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz/blob/main/zpaqfranz-debian.cpp

    Currently the fork is in FreeBSD, OpenBSD and brew

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    I apologize if I do not try again with the proposal of a new package
    with the normal "bug" channel, but I already tried a year ago (Bug#1019139)

    Thanks to every answers

    Franco Corbelli
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    <p><font size="4">I would like to know, please, if there is any
    Debian developer interested (with some free time) in including a
    fork of the zpaq archiving program, abandonware from 2016.<br>
    </font></p>
    <p><font size="4">The maintainer of zpaq (S.Kitt) follows many
    packages and I think he's very busy, maybe too busy to help me.</font></p>
    <p><font size="4">I have tried cyclically over the past two years,
    without succeeding.</font></p>
    <p><font size="4">Since there is already a Debian package in the
    codebase and my software is (almost) a drop-in replacement it
    should be fairly easy to modify what is present (i.e. not takin