As per https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers I am requesting package maintainer "Bernard Johnson" (FAS: bjohnson) to fix the current issue in EPEL7, but he seems nonresponsive:


A simple fix is needed for the EPEL7 package to work properly after a reboot:

diff --git a/BackupPC.spec b/BackupPC.spec
index 2ca5237..803e5f7 100644
--- a/BackupPC.spec
+++ b/BackupPC.spec
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 %global _without_selinux 1
 %endif
 
-# tmpfiles.d & systemd support in all supported Fedora now, but not RHEL
-%if 0%{?fedora}
+# tmpfiles.d & systemd support in all supported Fedora now, but not RHEL < 7
+%if 0%{?fedora} || 0%{?rhel} >= 7
 %global _with_tmpfilesd 1
 %global _with_systemd 1
 %endif

Reasons to suspect bjohnson has abandoned his packages:

- His email bounces:

Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups:

bjohnson@symetrix.com (bjohnson@symetrix.com)
Your message wasn't delivered. Despite repeated attempts to deliver your message, the recipient's email system refused to accept a connection from your email system.

Contact the recipient by some other means (by phone, for example) and ask them to tell their email admin that it appears that their email system is refusing connections from your email server. Give them the error details shown below. It's likely that the recipient's email admin is the only one who can fix this problem.

For Email Admins
No connection could be made because the target computer actively refused it. This usually results from trying to connect to a service that is inactive on the remote host - that is, one with no server application running. For more information and tips to fix this issue see this article: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=389361








Diagnostic information for administrators:

Generating server: HE1PR06MB1388.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com
Receiving server: HE1PR06MB1388.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com

bjohnson@symetrix.com
6/1/2016 10:51:38 AM - Server at HE1PR06MB1388.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com returned '550 5.4.316 Message expired, connection refused(Socket error code 10061)'
6/1/2016 10:41:23 AM - Server at symetrix.com (69.56.173.112) returned '450 4.4.316 Connection refused(Socket error code 10061)'

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From: Benjamin Lefoul <benjamin.lefoul@nwise.se>
To: "bjohnson@symetrix.com" <bjohnson@symetrix.com>
Subject: BackupPC EPEL7
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- No one knows anything on the mailing lists upstream.


- "Symetrix.com" is unmaintained and the company listed in the whois "Symetrix Consulting" is nowhere to be found in the US (where bjohnson says he's located in FAS).
The company behind "symetrixconsulting.com" seems unrelated and located in India. The company behind "symetrix.co" told me they have no employee by that name:


 Chuck Larson Wednesday, 01 June 2016 at 17:58 CEST
Hello Benjamin,

Bernard Johnson does not work for Symetrix.

Kind regards,

Chuck Larson
Symetrix, Inc.
T +1.425.778.7728 x5
F +1.425.778.7727
www.symetrix.co




- fedora_active_user.py output:



./fedora_active_user.py --user bjohnson
FAS password for lef: 
Last login in FAS:
   bjohnson 2015-06-18
Last action on koji:
   Sat, 07 May 2016 package list entry created: viewvc in f24-Beta by pbrobinson [still active]
Last package update on bodhi:
   2015-03-15 05:17:51 on package BackupPC-3.3.1-1.el7
Last actions performed according to fedmsg:
  - ppisar@redhat.com updated 'status', 'cf_fixed_in', 'resolution', 'assigned_to', and 'cf_last_closed' on RHBZ#1230590 'Update perl-forks to 0.36' on 2016-05-25 10:09:35 ()
  - ollie@fubra.com filed a new bug RHBZ#1337984 'BackupPC expects /var/run/BackupPC to ex...' on 2016-05-20 17:35:07 ()
  - aparsons@redhat.com updated RHBZ#625827 'gscan2pdf needs libtiff-tools as a depen...' on 2016-04-18 12:12:52 ()
  - rhbz@genodeftest.de filed a new bug RHBZ#1327676 'upstream is gone, URL is used by spammer...' on 2016-04-15 17:29:11 ()
  - upstream-release-monitoring commented on RHBZ#1220145 'gscan2pdf-1.4.0 is available' on 2016-04-15 02:15:52 ()
  - upstream-release-monitoring commented on RHBZ#1220145 'gscan2pdf-1.4.0 is available' on 2016-04-15 02:15:52 ()
  - upstream-release-monitoring commented on RHBZ#1220145 'gscan2pdf-1.4.0 is available' on 2016-04-15 02:15:52 ()
  - upstream-release-monitoring commented on RHBZ#1220145 'gscan2pdf-1.4.0 is available' on 2016-04-15 02:15:21 ()
  - rossetyler@gmail.com commented on RHBZ#1294761 'smbclient stderr output (e.g. tar:316  t...' on 2016-04-09 23:44:16 ()
  - rossetyler@gmail.com commented on RHBZ#1294761 'smbclient stderr output (e.g. tar:316  t...' on 2016-04-09 22:58:44 ()


./fedora_active_user.py --email bjohnson@symetrix.com
Last email on mailing list:
   No activity found on gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel
   No activity found on gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.artwork
   No activity found on gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.desktop
   No activity found on gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.epel.devel
   No activity found on gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.extras.packaging
   No activity found on gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.fonts
   No activity found on gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
   No activity found on gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.infrastructure
   No activity found on gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.kde
   No activity found on gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.perl
Bugzilla activity
   34 bugs assigned, cc or on which bjohnson@symetrix.com commented
Last comment on the most recent ticket on bugzilla:
   #1111762 2014-08-22 Bernard Johnson