Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: Error: Too Many values to unpack

[Blair Zajac]

On Jul 29, 2007, at 8:05 AM, micah wrote:

> * Dave Kempe <address@hidden> [070728 16:32]:
> > micah wrote:
> > > The one downside that maybe wasn't accounted for is that this breaks
> > > rdiff-backup between Debian stable and both Debian testing and  
> > > unstable.
> > > This means that to backup a Debian stable system with rdiff- 
> > > backup, one
> > > needs to backup to another stable system, whereas before this wasn't
> > > necessary.
> >
> > the same thing happened when debian decided to include the devel  
> > version of
> > rdiff-backup instead of the stable version. I think it was around  
> > sarge
> > time.
>
> This time Debian stable (etch) has the rdiff-backup stable version  
> 1.1.5, and
> the testing and unstable Debian have 1.1.12, until a newer verison is
> released. But even when a newer version of rdiff-backup is  
> released, it
> will still be incompatible with 1.1.5.
>
> I understand the reasons for doing this, but I don't understand why it
> was only a minor version number changed. ABI changes require ABI  
> number
> changes, and with rdiff-backup I would have expected the version to
> become 1.2.0, although it sounds like its about to come.
>
> > > Seeing as Debian Stable is likely to be around for at least  
> > > another year,
> > > this is likely going to be an issue that comes up frequently  
> > > until a new
> > > version of Debian is released. One solution is a backport.org  
> > > version of
> > > the newer 1.1.12 version, but this is not a great solution either.
> >
> > maybe we should build debs and put them on the rdiff-backup.org site.
> > would people be interested in my investigating that and making it  
> > happen?
>
> Most Debian users know to look at backports.org for backports of newer
> versions, so it seems to me that if a backport is done, it should  
> be put
> there, and then a link can be added to the rdiff-backup.org site to
> point people there. No sense in maintaining two backports in two
> different locations.

Fyi, I've put Ubuntu Dapper debs for 1.1.2 up at

http://www-devel.orcaware.com/packages/ubuntu/dapper/

This repository has debs for other packages, so be careful if you put  
this site in your sources.list.

Regards,
Blair

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