Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Bump major release version for rdiff-backup?

[Dave Kempe]

I think rdiff-backup 3 sounds great. 

> From: "Otto Kekäläinen" <address@hidden>
> To: "EricZolf" <address@hidden>, "Andrew Foster" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Rdiff Backup" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Friday, 2 August, 2019 8:13:53 PM
> Subject: [rdiff-backup-users] Bump major release version for rdiff-backup?

> Hello!

> With the adoption of librsync2 the old MD4 hash is no longer supported
> and thus a non-backwards compatible change is introduced. All backups
> must therefore start from "scratch".
> See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=776246

> Also, the Python 3 rewrite is a major thing. Therefore I suggest the
> next release of rdiff-backup would bump the major version number and
> become 2.0.0 (or even 3.0.0 to tribute Python 3).

> What do you think?

> - Otto

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