Applications disappear instead of being deprecated

[DrewP]

Last week I had a "Notebook PC hits floor at high velocity while switched on" incident and decided to install Fedora 13 on the new hard disk.

All went smoothly until I tried to restore my data from backup.

Simple Backup is not in the Fedora 13 repository, and guess what application I had been using to do my backups?

Looking at the release notes I can see that deja dup is the new simple backup solution, but I did not notice anything saying that Simple Backup had been removed.

Fortunately I had a Fedora 12 box with enough space to recover my data and from which I transferred the recovered data, but it added several hours to the task.

I now have to work out what to do with the several full and incremental backups made by Simple Backup and which I would like to keep for a few months more but which will require me to keep a machine with the old distribution just for that purpose.

I think it would be much fairer for users if there is a 6 month changeover period in which both versions of backup exist in the repository and the release notes make it clear that Backup system X is deprecated, will not appear in the next version and Backup System Y is the recommended solution going forward.

I appreciate the devs aren't here but if anyone could suggest to whom I should address this comment I will gladly do so.

If the Fedora 12 Release notes DID actually say this then I have learned a valuable lesson...

[CSchwangler]

There is a site dedicated to how to communicate with Fedora:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by DrewP

Last week I had a "Notebook PC hits floor at high velocity while switched on" incident and decided to install Fedora 13 on the new hard disk.

All went smoothly until I tried to restore my data from backup.

Simple Backup is not in the Fedora 13 repository, and guess what application I had been using to do my backups?

Looking at the release notes I can see that deja dup is the new simple backup solution, but I did not notice anything saying that Simple Backup had been removed.

Fortunately I had a Fedora 12 box with enough space to recover my data and from which I transferred the recovered data, but it added several hours to the task.

I now have to work out what to do with the several full and incremental backups made by Simple Backup and which I would like to keep for a few months more but which will require me to keep a machine with the old distribution just for that purpose.

I think it would be much fairer for users if there is a 6 month changeover period in which both versions of backup exist in the repository and the release notes make it clear that Backup system X is deprecated, will not appear in the next version and Backup System Y is the recommended solution going forward.

I appreciate the devs aren't here but if anyone could suggest to whom I should address this comment I will gladly do so.

If the Fedora 12 Release notes DID actually say this then I have learned a valuable lesson...

If you want you build it, join the project and submit a review request.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join


Or you could try this rpm (or rebuild it)

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/b...buildID=147233

[DrewP]

Originally Posted by leigh123linux

Or you could try this rpm (or rebuild it)

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/b...buildID=147233

I downloaded the rpm and installed it. It appears to run. I will test it properly when I return home. Thanks for that.

Do you have access to privileged information or could I have found that URL if I had known where and how to look?

Originally Posted by leigh123linux

If you want you build it, join the project and submit a review request.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join

I downloaded the source and will take a look at it. Maybe this will finally persuade me to migrate from Perl to Python.

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by DrewP

I downloaded the rpm and installed it. It appears to run. I will test it properly when I return home. Thanks for that.

Do you have access to privileged information or could I have found that URL if I had known where and how to look?



I downloaded the source and will take a look at it. Maybe this will finally persuade me to migrate from Perl to Python.

It is public.

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/builds

Koji is the buildsystem for fedora