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Bug 260661 - app-backup/rdiff-backup-1.2.8 version bump
Summary: app-backup/rdiff-backup-1.2.8 version bump
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: App-Backup Team
URL: http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/
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Keywords:
: 264017 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2009-02-28 19:21 UTC by Bonaventure Soriaux
Modified: 2009-03-29 13:18 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Bonaventure Soriaux 2009-02-28 19:21:25 UTC 
As per http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ , rdiff-backup has had a stable release bump to 1.2.6 which fixes the following issues as found on the release announcement:

New in v1.2.6 (2009/01/27)
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Improve support for handling too long filenames under Windows. Too long
directory names and paths are still a problem. (Andrew Ferguson)


Print more helpful error messages when the remote command cannot be started
on Windows. Thanks to Dominic for the bug report. (Andrew Ferguson)

Fix --test-server option when used with remote Windows clients. Thanks to
Thanos Diacakis for testing. (Andrew Ferguson)

Fix --override-chars-to-quote option. (Andrew Ferguson)


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I would greatly appreciate an update in portage, thanks!

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 A. Clark 2009-03-11 03:12:02 UTC 
Actually, they're up to 1.2.7 stable now.

Anybody maintaining this?
Comment 2 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-03-28 15:42:06 UTC 
*** Bug 264017 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Patrick Lauer gentoo-dev 2009-03-29 13:18:31 UTC 
+  29 Mar 2009; Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org>
+  +rdiff-backup-1.2.8.ebuild:
+  Bump to 1.2.8. Fixes #260661