Comment 3 for bug 1669616

So, if we could extract just the bug fixes, how would you want them?
Patch? Merge?

...Ken
Duplicity Maintainer

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 6:42 PM, Vej <email address hidden> wrote:

> I would like to see 0.7.08 or higher for zesty. But zesty is feature
> freeze, which forbids the introduction of new changes.
>
> Please see the following excerpt from duplicities changelog for more
> informations about the changes made since duplicity 0.7.06.
>
> @Jeff: Most of them are bugfixes which would allow for merging into
> zesty. Nevertheless there are some changes which might need a
> FreezeException. Please see
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess for a guideline about
> this.
>
> The same changes might be forbidden in a Stable Relase Update (SRU),
> which are the (non security related) updates for released ubuntu
> versions. This means that it might be necessary to create patches for
> the remaining bugfixes to ship them in an SRU without inclusion of new
> features.
>
> One example for things which might be considered a new feature:
>
> * Added acdclibackend.py from Stefan Breunig and Malay Shah
> - renamed from amazoncloudbackend to stress use of acd_cli
>
>
> ** Attachment added: "The CHANGELOG of duplicity betwwen the versions
> 0.7.06 and 0.7.11"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/duplicity/+bug/
> 1669616/+attachment/4830255/+files/CHANGELOG_duplicity_excerpt.txt
>
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> Title:
> please consider updating to >=0.7.08
>
> Status in duplicity package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> There is a bug in duplicity 0.7.06 that causes certain ignored folders
> to be backed up anyway. This results in deja-dup reporting an error
> after each backup. According to a bug report on deja-dup, this was
> fixed in duplicity 0.7.08:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+bug/1313034
>
> Please consider updating the Ubuntu package to a newer version of
> duplicity.
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