Re: [ITA] duplicity

[Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>]

On 2022-04-06 16:10, Libor Ukropec wrote:
> I'd like to offer to adopt maintenance of duplicity (Encrypted 
> bandwidth-efficient backup system)
> Information from https://duplicity.gitlab.io/ - """The last stable 0.7 
> release is *0.7.19*, released Apr 19, 2019""", while cygwin contains 
> 0.7.11 from 2017
> Updated cygport:
> https://github.com/cz6ace/cygwin-duplicity

You need to define BUILD_REQUIRES and list all Cygwin packages needed to 
build this package:

https://cygwin.github.io/cygport/check_funcs_cygpart.html#robo791

Use BUILD_REQUIRES+=" ..." for additional lines of packages.

> Updated build:
> https://github.com/cz6ace/cygwin-duplicity/releases

See:

	https://cygwin.com/git/cygwin-packages/duplicity.git

You can clone the repo for the original files, checkout a playground 
branch, commit your changes and patches (and any extra source files), 
define the upstream playground branch, and push your changes there, 
which will run Scallywag CI under Github Actions (or Appveyor if you 
configure that cygport option).

> Please note for successful installation the python 2.7 fasteners package 
> is required, not yet in cygwin, I plan to offer [ITP] for it:
> cygport:
> https://github.com/cz6ace/cygwin-python-fasteners
> build:
> https://github.com/cz6ace/cygwin-python-fasteners/releases

Need to support python3/39 now: see python package cygports in 
cygwin-packages repos as above!

> Python standard library provides a lock for threads (both a reentrant 
> one, and a non-reentrant one, see below). Fasteners extends this, and 
> provides a lock for processes, as well as Reader Writer locks for both 
> threads and processes.
> 
> This library (in newer version) is also present in LInux distributions, 
> e.g. Ubuntu:
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/focal/s390x/python-fasteners

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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