22.04 install questions

[Keith]

On 4/25/22 9:00 AM, Stuart McGraw wrote:
> On 4/23/22 12:33, Keith wrote:
>> On 4/23/22 10:28 AM, Stuart McGraw wrote:
>>> I switched from Fedora to Ubuntu a few years ago and have been running 18.04.  But with the release of 22.04, this will be the first time I will upgrade between major versions.  (I will be doing a fresh install rather than an upgrade to clean up some of the learning mistakes I made in 18.04.)  There are still things about the Ubuntu release model I don't understand.
>>>
>>> I use a backup program called "Bacula".  However, it does not seem to be available for 22.04 (https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=bacula).  Does this mean it's been dropped or rather that it will be released for 22.04 later?  If the latter, how to get an idea of when?  How can find the answers myself without asking in a place like here?
>>
>> checking bug reports and changelogs from Ubuntu and Debian  will usually indicate the status of a package
>>
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=997139
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>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bacula/9.6.7-3build1 (notice the build failures on all architectures)
>>
>> There were severe build problems with bacula at the time that Jammy was opened for development that didn't get sorted out until version 9.6.7-4. It didn't get migrated to testing in Debian until mid March which was past the Debian import freeze deadline to include in Jammy. It may get packaged and included via the backports repo, but someone from the Ubuntu community will have to do the work to get it there.
> 
> and
> 
> On 4/23/22 13:29, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>> hi,
>> Am Samstag, dem 23.04.2022 um 13:33 -0500 schrieb Keith:
>>>    included via the backports repo, but someone from the
>>> Ubuntu community will have to do the work to get it there.
>>
>> nah, the SRU team [1] will surely happily let it into the normal
>> archive if someone files a bug and explains the situation ...
>>
>> ciao
>> 	oli
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates
> 
> Just to confirm I understand correctly, the Debian bug report says that the 9.6.7-3 which would have gone into 22.04 didn't because of build problems but there is now a 9.6.7-4 version at Debian that builds correctly?

It builds, but not without issues. See 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1009012
I don't use bacula, but I'm not sure given the problem listed in the bug 
report (some issue with mysql) and another bug report which concerns 
write errors that it would be suitable for production.

> 
> So are you saying that the fixed version is unlikely to go into 22.04.1 unless someone (me I presume) files a bug report to request it? 

Yes, though if you're going to file a bug report, I would go ahead make 
it for version 11 which is out now from bacula. There's currently a bug 
report in Debian for this. Here's one for Ubuntu that you can join 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bacula/+bug/1930289. My guess 
is that this will take a some time to accomplish. It's not likely to 
happen in time for 22.04.1. Realistically, I think its more likely that, 
barring any of the same problems with 9.6.7, version 11.x will be 
included in release 22.10.

Alternately, you can add a deb repository from Bacula.org itself and 
install directly from them. Apparently, though, you will have to 
register with them before they will give you a link to the repo and 
access to their signing key used to authenticate their packages.

-- 
Keith