[rdiff-backup-users] dropping ACLs if names can't be mapped

[martin f krafft]

Hello,

I've had a long-standing issue with how rdiff-backup handles ACLs:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=424638

basically, if I have an ACL allowing group webserver to read files,
that group has to exist on the destination filesystem, or else
the warn_drop function in eas_acls.py:470 is called, telling me that

  "--never-drop-acls specified but cannot map name
   webserver occurring inside an ACL."

Isn't rdiff-backup supposed to be writing to metadata? Why does it
even try to map names? Is there a bug or am I misunderstanding
something?

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