Packaging Help needed - Debian/Devuan/Ubuntu and Homebrew + testing weekly

[EricZolf]

Hi,

a few things from your favorite open source maintainer:

1. it's been two months since rdiff-backup 2.2.6 has been released, and 
Debian & Co is still stuck at 2.2.2
@Otto had asked for volunteers to support his packaging effort, so if 
you care about those (important) platforms, please step up and liaise 
with Otto [1] on this topic.

2. if anybody has special power on Homebrew, it would be nice if you 
could help expedite [2] resp. [3] so that we get rid of this disturbing 
version 2.4.0 (which should never have been released, I know, I know).
I just asked repology to ignore the version [7] but a roll-back would be 
cleaner.

3. if your favorite distro isn't listed at [6] or only with an outdated 
version of rdiff-backup, it's time to step up as packager!

4. please have a look at the weekly release [4] and test it, especially 
after tonight's build [5]! Make sure that it isn't broken in any way, 
and especially in collaboration with version 2.2.x (and API 201). The 
sooner a breakage is discovered, the easier it is for me to fix it, 
especially before I start doing even more massive rewrites.

KR, Eric

[1] https://github.com/ottok
[2] https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/issues/944
[3] https://github.com/orgs/Homebrew/discussions/4882
[4] https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/releases/tag/weekly
[5] it will be built with newer versions of Python and using pyproject.toml
[6] https://repology.org/project/rdiff-backup/versions
[7] https://repology.org/project/rdiff-backup/report