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Bug#1035725: rdiff-backup in Bookworm not compatible with version in Bullseye

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Henrik Riomar

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May 8, 2023, 7:40:05 AM5/8/23
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Package: rdiff-backup
Version: 2.2.2-1

The version of rdiff-backup in Bookworm is not backwards compatible with the version
in Debian Bullseye (2.0.5-2)

Problem addressed in upstream version 2.5.0 or with this diff:


Henrik Riomar

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May 8, 2023, 7:50:06 AM5/8/23
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sorry upstream version with fix is 2.2.5 (not 2.5.0)

Otto Kekäläinen

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May 20, 2023, 11:00:04 AM5/20/23
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Severity: important 

Hi!

Yes, we could try push this into Bookworm, but importance needs to be justified.

Can you explain the problem and severity of the issue, steps to reproduce and maybe copy-paste the command and resulting error message too?

Henrik Riomar

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May 20, 2023, 3:30:05 PM5/20/23
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Reproduction of the bug is simple with safekeep from a system running Debian 11 trying to backup a system running Debian 12.

The backup can not even start, just get "Exception ''restrict_path'' raised of class '<class 'KeyError'>'" from rdiff-backup on Debian 12.

Full back-trace from safekeep in the upstream bug report here: https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/issues/872

Otto Kekäläinen

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Jan 12, 2024, 11:10:05 PM1/12/24
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Looking at https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/issues/872
this was fixed in latest rdiff-backup, which is now available in
Debian unstable.

If you can confirm that this version fixes the issue, I can backport
it to Debian Bookworm as well.

Henrik Riomar

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Jan 14, 2024, 5:00:05 AM1/14/24
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On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 5:00 AM Otto Kekäläinen <ot...@debian.org> wrote:

Looking at https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/issues/872
this was fixed in latest rdiff-backup, which is now available in
Debian unstable.

If you can confirm that this version fixes the issue, I can backport
it to Debian Bookworm as well.

Yes it works.

This is the diff we currently apply via Ansible to Debian 12 hosts:

Luca Capello

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Jan 22, 2024, 9:10:06 AM1/22/24
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tags 1035725 + upstream patch
forwarded 1035725 https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/issues/872
user lu...@pca.it
usertags 770171 + pca.it-backup
thanks

Hi there,
I can confirm that the version in Debian 11/bullseye *does not need*
any modification, while the version in Debian 12/bullseye simply needs
the upstream modifications Henrik linked, thus the following commit:

<https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/pull/873/commits/1f46deee93ba1fe5dab7d09f25476a89ec334749>

NB, IMHO this must go ASAP in stable-proposed-updates!

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

PS, this is an upstream bug, tagging accordingly!
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