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rsync version for xenial

Bug #1743873 reported by Jeff Norden on 2018-01-17

This bug affects 2 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
rsync (Debian)	Fix Released	Unknown	debbugs #764616
rsync (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
Xenial	Opinion	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Any chance that rsync could be updated to 3.1.2 for xenial?

The --backup-dir option in 3.1.1 doesn't work properly - it creates empty directories even when no files need to be put in them.

Thanks,
-Jeff

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2018-04-04:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in rsync (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) wrote on 2018-04-04:

Updating rsync to 3.1.2 would also fix Ubuntu bug #1707136 (Rsyncd doesn't start at boot in Ubuntu 16.04), to fix this problem user should run this manually:
systemctl enable rsync

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2018-04-04

Changed in rsync (Debian):
status:	Unknown → Fix Released

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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote on 2018-06-20:

For the usual SRU policy [1] it is unlikely and would require a lot of exceptions and checks to take the full 3.1.2.

You'd really have to show that it is not working at all.
Otherwise usually only individual fixes are backported.

The other issue you mentioned is already tracked on it's own so I won't consider that for the xenial task here for it.

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

Changed in rsync (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Fix Released
Changed in rsync (Ubuntu Xenial):
status:	New → Opinion
importance:	Undecided → Low