Re: [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Add hdup.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Eric Bavier <address@hidden> skribis:

> From 3a0fe0fa0674f48cb996d80f97dc54815405a9d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Eric Bavier <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 16:35:12 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Add hdup.
>
> * gnu/packages/backup.scm (hdup): New variable.

Minor issues:

> +      (method url-fetch)
> +      ;; Source tarballs are not versioned
> +      (uri "http://archive.miek.nl/projects/hdup2/hdup.tar.bz2";)

Bonus points if you get the maintainer(s) to use versioned tarballs.  :-)

> +    (synopsis "The little, spiffy, backup tool")

A bit marketingish and not very descriptive IMO; how about “Simple
incremental backup tool”?

> +    (description
> +     "Hdup2 is a backup utilty, it's aim is to make backup really simple.  
> The

“its”

> +backup scheduling is done by means of a cronjob.  It supports an

“cron job”

OK to push with these changes.

Thanks!

Ludo’.