Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: Error: Too Many values to unpack

[Dave Kempe]

micah wrote:
> The one downside that maybe wasn't accounted for is that this breaks 
> rdiff-backup between Debian stable and both Debian testing and unstable. 
> This means that to backup a Debian stable system with rdiff-backup, one 
> needs to backup to another stable system, whereas before this wasn't 
> necessary. 

the same thing happened when debian decided to include the devel version 
of rdiff-backup instead of the stable version. I think it was around 
sarge time.


> Seeing as Debian Stable is likely to be around for at least another year, 
> this is likely going to be an issue that comes up frequently until a new 
> version of Debian is released. 
>
> One solution is a backport.org version of the newer 1.1.12 version, but 
> this is not a great solution either.

maybe we should build debs and put them on the rdiff-backup.org site.
would people be interested in my investigating that and making it happen?

dave