Bug 691560 – app-backup/rdiff-backup development continues with new maintainer

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Tobias Leupold 2019-08-06 10:21:30 UTC]

Hi Gentoo devs!

I don't know if the current maintainer of the rdiff-backup ebuild knows about this, so I thought it wouldn't hurt to file a bug about this.

A new maintainer adopted the recently unmaintained rdiff-backup project. It's Otto Kekäläinen who's apparently a full-time Debian developer. Meanwhile, the code base has been moved to https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup

So fortunately, the development of this nice project continues and will likely lead to a Python 3 ported release in the near future.

Cheers, Tobias

[Comment 1 Jonas Stein 2019-08-06 19:13:10 UTC]

Is this a fork, or did the old maintainer mention a "transfer" (link?).
see also
https://repology.org/project/rdiff-backup/versions

[Comment 2 Tobias Leupold 2019-08-06 19:17:40 UTC]

Apparently, this isn't a fork but now the official rdiff-backup project. They want to merge all existing forks and efforts of Python 3 porting and maintaining.

The initial mail to the rdiff-backup mailing list can be found here:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/2019-07/msg00005.html

[Comment 3 Bernard Cafarelli 2019-08-22 21:01:00 UTC]

Thanks for the report (and posting upstream)! I check that mailing on unregular basis, so appreciate the bug - especially with good news for rdiff-backup future

So if I read all the posts correctly, https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup is now indeed the upstream reference, with most recent active/official contributors onboard (and sol1/rdiff-backup redirects there now)

I updated metadata to reflect this, keeping the bug open until a new release is out (with python 3 support)

[Comment 4 Larry the Git Cow 2019-08-22 21:02:31 UTC]

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=23345a82bf9b3dc6de297b06015f00b464335459

commit 23345a82bf9b3dc6de297b06015f00b464335459
Author:     Bernard Cafarelli <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2019-08-22 21:02:16 +0000
Commit:     Bernard Cafarelli <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2019-08-22 21:02:26 +0000

    app-backup/rdiff-backup: update github remote-id
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/691560
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.72, Repoman-2.3.17
    Signed-off-by: Bernard Cafarelli <[e-mail]>

 app-backup/rdiff-backup/metadata.xml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

[Comment 5 Bernard Cafarelli 2019-11-29 17:48:06 UTC]

I added 1.4.0 beta (what will eventually become 2.0.0) to tree:
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=b7a404f2c9389f897c9a03965165d49df23bb139

People wanting to try it can unmask it, note that mixing 1.3 and 1.4/2.0 clients and servers does not work (updating an existing backup does work)

So now tracking the proper upstream remote and with a version in tree, marking this fixed