One Suggestion by ... Calhariz

I have checked the conditions for an official backport of amanda in Debian, but I think there is not demand enough. I have made an non official backport of amanda 3.5.1 for Debian stretch amd64 because of new features, fixes bugs and to support my users. You can download the tar file with the debs from here.

I found a bug in amanda-3.3.8 that was quickly fixed by upstream. Please upgrade to this version.

The updates will go to collab-maint.The debs files for jessie are here:

amanda-common_3.3.8-1_cal1_i386.deb

amanda-server_3.3.8-1_cal1_i386.deb

amanda-client_3.3.8-1_cal1_i386.deb

Here comes the changelog:

amanda (1:3.3.8-1~cal1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New Upstream version
    * Changes for 3.3.8
      * s3 devices
          New NEARLINE S3-STORAGE-CLASS for Google storage.
          New AWS4 STORAGE-API
      * amcryptsimple
          Works with newer gpg2.
      * amgtar
          Default SPARSE value is NO if tar < 1.28.
          Because a bug in tar with some filesystem.
      * amstar
          support include in backup mode.
      * ampgsql
          Add FULL-WAL property.
      * Many bugs fix.
    * Changes for 3.3.7p1
      * Fix build in 3.3.7
    * Changes for 3.3.7
      * amvault
          new --no-interactivity argument.
          new --src-labelstr argument.
      * amdump
          compute crc32 of the streams and write them to the debug files.
      * chg-robot
          Add a BROKEN-DRIVE-LOADED-SLOT property.
      * Many bugs fix.
  * Refreshed patches.
  * Dropped patches that were applied by the upstream: fix-misc-typos,
    automake-add-missing, fix-amcheck-M.patch,
    fix-device-src_rait-device.c, fix-amreport-perl_Amanda_Report_human.pm
  * Change the email of the maintainer.
  * "wrap-and-sort -at" all control files.
  * swig is a new build depend.
  * Bump standard version to 3.9.6, no changes needed.
  * Replace deprecated dependency perl5 by perl, (Closes: #808209), thank
    you Gregor Herrmann for the NMU.
  * New patch fix-amgtar-exclude to fix amgtar when the exclude file don't
    exist.

 -- Jose M Calhariz <jose@calhariz.com>  Thu, 11 Feb 2016 17:52:08 +0000

Currently, as of today, amanda on sid is not installable because of a dependency on perl5 instead of perl. While I sort out a sponsor, my sponsor is very busy, here is a preview of the new packages. So anyone can install and test them and work around bug #808209.

The source of the packages is in collab-maint. The debs files are here:

• amanda-common_3.3.7p1-1_cal0_amd64.deb
• amanda-common_3.3.7p1-1_cal0_i386.deb
• amanda-client_3.3.7p1-1_cal0_amd64.deb
• amanda-client_3.3.7p1-1_cal0_i386.deb
• amanda-server_3.3.7p1-1_cal0_amd64.deb
• amanda-server_3.3.7p1-1_cal0_i386.deb