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1. Can be used to submit BackupPC 4.x to Debian.
2. Should likely be based on https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/modify.en.html and a refresh of the patches.
3. Should address #7 and #14 . Could be used to also fix / improve #6 and #2 .

Building a package of 4.3.2 from the latest commit, 4e32d29 I ended up with it installing the program without execute permissions, so the service failed to start.
I'm not sure which commit introduced this behavior, but building from b1bbdd5 worked okay.

$ sudo bash -x  /etc/init.d/backuppc status
+ set -e
+ BINDIR=/usr/share/backuppc/bin
+ DATADIR=/var/lib/backuppc
+ USER=backuppc
+ NICE=0
+ test -f /etc/default/backuppc
+ . /etc/default/backuppc
++ NICE=0
+ NAME=backuppc
+ DAEMON=BackupPC
+ test -x /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC
+ exit 0


$ ls -l /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 87187 Jun 21 03:31 /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC

See 94a7b92

@brenard's 0260c46 commit is just a workaround for Debian building package process on host without backuppc user.

By setting while(0), I disable the following while block that try to determine backuppc user infos, which fail on host without backuppc user. I first try to use --no-set-perms parameter of configure.pl script in debian/rules file but it's not working.

This workaround could certainly be fixed be using a more graceful solution but it's currently the easier way for me.

I will try to see if the --no-set-perms parameter could be a proper solution by fixing it effect in configure.pl file. In this case, I could propose a PR upstream for that and we could use it to fix this problem by just using --no-set-perms parameter in debian/rules file, like I first tried.

On Debian Stretch dpkg-buildpackage fails with the following error message:
can't build with source format '3.0 (native)': native package version may not have a revision

Packaging works as expected with revision number removed in debian/changelog:
backuppc (4.3.0) stable; urgency=medium

Hello @raoulbhatia

Would you have some time left to update your repository with upstream ? Debian packaging is something completely unknown to me, but I could give it a try if you think its for the best ?

https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/releases/tag/4.3.2

Cheers, 🍻