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commit 3c4b11291440689cca07c8e9878a8f869e446592
Author: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
Date: Wed Oct 21 22:14:24 2026 +0800
Update changelog
commit 936308e6748fddb841b32eb1aac3807c9d70f229
Author: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
Date: Thu Oct 29 11:13:01 2026 +0000
Install upstream changelog under canonical name
Upstream setup.py installs CHANGELOG.adoc directly into the
documentation directory, which Lintian reports as
wrong-name-for-upstream-changelog. Use dh_installchangelogs to install
it as changelog so it is compressed to changelog.gz, and remove the
duplicate non-standard copy.
commit cb15894a58fb442271532654d3042746fa2d9bcc
Author: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
Date: Thu Oct 29 10:43:27 2026 +0000
Update debian/copyright with missing license information
Add stanzas for the GPL-3+ files from Patrik Dufresne, the Apache-2.0
rdiff-backup-regress scripts from Dominic Raferd, and the BSD-2-clause
Ansible roles from Bert Van Vreckem. Also list the additional copyright
holders found in the source tree.
This resolves the differences reported by licenserecon.
commit b5d36d74f00db487b8daf6f9cdafbf5767c87d55
Author: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
Date: Wed Oct 21 08:39:06 2026 +0000
Stop using pytest and run tests directly as upstream does
This is needed due to upstream commit 5a1def7, and is more future-proof
as upstream does not use pytest and when running tests it is better to
be aligned with upstream conventions.
commit 3f0cd954bd27c8101f674f2aabef3581cb70d116
Author: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
Date: Wed Oct 21 13:04:37 2026 +0000
Bump Debian Policy version to 4.7.4
No changes required after reviewing checklist at
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.html#version-4_7_4
commit bb6c194a03f76ac482e5d495d3ac6cf2a7677a2e
Author: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
Date: Wed Oct 21 13:04:37 2026 +0000
Drop redundant `Rules-Requires-Root: no`
As of dpkg version 1.22.13, this field is set to "no" by default.
As such, in this case the Rules-Requires-Root field is redundant and should be
removed.
commit cba93eb96f3706367a27eded54ee208953396287
Author: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
Date: Wed Oct 21 13:04:37 2026 +0000
Drop redundant `Priority: optional`
As of dpkg version 1.22.13, this field is set to "optional" by default.
As such, in this case the Priority field is redundant and should be
removed.
commit 5f435da7b341caf890e09056435f7bb416b1b101
Author: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
Date: Wed Oct 21 13:04:33 2026 +0000
Bump Debhelper version from 13 to 14
Add dependency on `dh-sequence-single-binary` to be ready for Debhelper
15. Fixes:
dh: warning: Implicitly activating single-binary dh addon for backwards compatibility. In compat 15+,
dh: warning: this fallback will *not* happen automatically. The dh_auto_install tool will instead use a
dh: warning: different default for --destdir unless the single-binary add-on is active,
dh: warning: which can cause the source to produce an empty binary package
dh: warning:
dh: warning: To keep the existing behaviour (compat 13), please activate the single-binary addon explicitly.
dh: warning: This can be done by adding "dh-sequence-single-binary" to Build-Depends or passing
dh: warning: --with=single-binary to dh.
dh: warning:
dh: warning: If you have solved this issue differently (e.g., by passing --destdir explicitly to
dh: warning: dh_auto_install or not using dh_auto_install at all) and want to silence this warning
dh: warning: without activating the addon, you can do that by passing --without=single-binary to dh
dh: warning: to explicitly acknowledge the change.
dh: warning:
dh: warning: Please see the description of the "single-binary" in "man dh" for more details of what
dh: warning: it does and why this is changing from implicit behaviour to explicitly opt-in.
Additionally clean away three obsolete depends. One of them fixes:
dpkg-gencontrol: warning: Depends field of package rdiff-backup: substitution variable ${misc:Depends} used, but is not defined
No additional changes required after reviewing checklist at
https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/debhelper/debhelper-compat-upgrade-checklist.7.en.html#v14
commit 35a2369ba3fad0b56570fa49a73bb873446db435
Author: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
Date: Wed Oct 21 13:04:37 2026 +0000
Apply consistent formatting to packaging files
Run `debputy reformat --style black` and `wrap-and-sort -vast` to
enforce uniform deb822 formatting with one item per line. This makes
future changes to dependencies and other lists easier to track in git
diffs.
No functional changes.
commit f5370286566888d5c39c263d8475a091be83eefe
Author: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
Date: Wed Oct 21 15:07:22 2026 +0800
Update changelog after 2.2.7 import
commit 826f2ec3fc8bf26bd0609b73c9f69b73f2e1c986
Merge: e7aad4b 4ff8f59
Author: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
Date: Wed Oct 21 15:06:44 2026 +0800
Update upstream source from tag 'upstream/2.2.7'
Update to upstream version '2.2.7'
with Debian dir 3a84a1c7279e8c651b001a41a75e7e88566a48a5
commit 4ff8f5927fe463f724c709efa98ee0bb8d66785e
Merge: c5bcd36 0076661
Author: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
Date: Wed Oct 21 15:06:40 2026 +0800
New upstream version 2.2.7
commit e7aad4be21f55af1d068a692a64ae77f9c510ace
Author: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
Date: Wed Oct 21 14:28:44 2026 +0800
Update d/watch to use uscan v5 format
Limit tag selection using STABLE_VERSION so that e.v. v2.2.7 matches while
tags such as v2.4.0+unreleased and v2.6.0+unreleased are ignored.
commit 00766614fe78be84a3f002b8813a7a9bec39f1c9
Author: Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
Date: Tue Oct 20 11:24:53 2026 -0400
Preparing release v2.2.7
commit fa27cf794959e7b1a6a122f9dd5bf9169cd6fbd2
Author: Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
Date: Fri Oct 16 13:20:21 2026 -0400
allow UNC-style double slash prefix in glob paths (#1118)
FIX: include/exclude with UNC-style path
Signed-off-by: Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
commit 2b04a62efb7d8a7db86694af5943a2d61c3fabd6
Author: Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
Date: Fri Oct 16 13:18:01 2026 -0400
Handle NotImplementedError raised by acl_win (#1077)
FIX: Ignore NotImplementedError as raised by acl_win
Signed-off-by: Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
commit 6ed92cf7bae1fcdec92883b971fa707de6e591c5
Author: Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
Date: Fri Oct 16 13:08:48 2026 -0400
Continue backup on acl or xattr I/O errors (errno 5) (#1089)
CHG: ignore I/O errors (EIO) on ACL or Extended Attributes and continue backup, Closes #1088
Signed-off-by: Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
commit 0ec535611425a9bb272dfae774b99de2c43ab54f
Author: Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
Date: Fri Oct 16 13:07:19 2026 -0400
Handle Cross-device link exception (#1025)
FIX: copy file when Cross-Device link error is wrongly raised during move/rename e.g. on ZFS, closes #1024
Signed-off-by: Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
commit b2053b9743f2c32d38b52c87371d6ddd553907ea
Author: Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
Date: Fri Oct 16 13:06:09 2026 -0400
Handle Cross-Platform OSError.errno Mismatch part2 (#1065)
FIX: issue with OSError.errno discrepancies when the source and destination are on different platforms, closes #1027
Signed-off-by: Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
Co-authored-by: Eric L. <ericzolf@users.noreply.github.com>
commit 28812abf9f46ebb5820f1f7260c76eafe46de7cb
Author: Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
Date: Fri Oct 16 13:03:25 2026 -0400
Improve regression speed (#951)
NEW: rdiff-backup uses metadata like the checksum to validate the need for a regression, greatly improving speed of regression.
To enhance the speed of regression, consider verifying the original file's metadata instead of restoring the data. This approach accelerates the regression process by validating the file signature without the need for a full restoration. Given that reading is typically faster than writing, this significantly improves the efficiency of the regression process.
Signed-off-by: Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
commit 9567a9f07ff8e010eb67da6c5b39da615dc01ed7
Author: Eric L. <ericzolf@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon Oct 19 12:51:06 2026 +0200
Add parsable message and create_venv (#1129)
Address lack of parsable message in 5a1def748f3f18eb9d0c5e697530b0459b074085
FIX: add restricted unpickler to whitelist allowed classes, closes GHSA-gjr5-qwxg-p845 [backport]
Take also the chance to add back the script to create virtual environments.
commit facdec2aee2234b49c6a0e5cc6cf875166659a06
Author: Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
Date: Thu Oct 15 14:31:04 2026 -0400
backports changes for github workflows release
Signed-off-by: Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
commit 12f7b04971cce91d003fb5104b154d9e53a3bcda
Author: Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
Date: Wed Oct 14 06:54:28 2026 -0400
Remove global variables only read
Signed-off-by: Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
commit 5a1def748f3f18eb9d0c5e697530b0459b074085
Author: Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
Date: Wed Oct 14 06:51:56 2026 -0400
security: add restricted unpickler to whitelist allowed classes
Signed-off-by: Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
commit 28dfbc86ed883294f11cf18d7489c7ba0606fc98
Author: Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
Date: Fri Oct 9 16:27:22 2026 -0400
backports changes for github workflows
Signed-off-by: Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
commit ff597d7d70a13136cb91f7af8e843f9716284e0e
Author: Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
Date: Wed Oct 7 01:30:18 2026 -0400
make: remove docker-based RUN_COMMAND default (#1125)
It is possible to define RUN_COMMAND to call docker! See example in Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
commit e749e4f0ab611f822d00250670821ea2ec2ca192
Author: Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
Date: Mon Oct 5 15:56:41 2026 -0400
debian: add clean step to delete .tox .tox.root folders
Signed-off-by: Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
commit b19ab4096c30c04b19e1c0b28d4c276be6a9e26e
Author: Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
Date: Fri Oct 9 15:57:56 2026 -0400
Ignore virtualenv .venv and compiled modules
Signed-off-by: Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
commit c5bcd3619d83208e0ddeb7a8ac70fb71b9b0ca34
Author: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
Date: Fri Jan 12 14:24:57 2024 -0800
New upstream version 2.2.6
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