Re: [Duplicity-talk] Duplicity 0.6.20 Released

[Elvis Stansvik]

Congratulations, and good work!

I can confirm that sig files are no longer left behind.

Elvis

2012/10/28 Kenneth Loafman <address@hidden>:
> Hi,
>
> A lot of bug fixes and enhancements by the duplicity team.  My thanks go out
> to them for keeping the project going.
>
> I'm hoping some of the upstream maintainers read this announcement as well.
> There's a very pointed note at the top of the CHANGELOG file you need to
> read, but the bottom line is, QUIT CHANGING THE RELEASE!  We don't do
> anything without good reason and we're all tired of chasing bugs reported to
> us because you refuse to package duplicity the way we intended.  From now
> on, those bugs will be reassigned to the package maintainers that modified
> the code.  Please cease the changes.
>
> As usual, you can download from https://launchpad.net/duplicity/+download
>
> ...Thanks,
> ...Ken
>
>
> New in v0.6.20 (2012/10/28)
> ---------------------------
> Enhancements:
> * Merged in lp:~ed.so/duplicity/ssh.manpage
>   - added gdocs and rsync REQUIREMENTS
>   - added cloudfiles documentation
> * Merged in lp:~ed.so/duplicity/gpginterface
>   - refactor GnuPGInterface to gpginterface.py
>     reasoning can be found in README
> * Merged in lp:~ed.so/duplicity/duplicity.helpfix
>   - fix rare 'TypeError: encode() argument 1 must be string, not None'
>   -
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/duplicity-talk/2012-09/msg00016.html
> * Merged in lp:~ed.so/duplicity/duplicity.tmpspacefix
>   - use tempfile.TemporaryFile() so unused temp files are deleted
> automagically
>   - propbably solve bug 'Out of space error while restoring a file'
>   - https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/1005901
>   - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/duplicity-talk/2012-09/msg00000.html
> * Merged in lp:~mterry/duplicity/utf8-po
>   - For some crazy reason, the gettext module defaults to giving you strings
> in
>     whatever charset the po file happened to define.  Which means you never
> know
>     what string of bytes you're going to get.  This module makes sure we
> always
>     get utf-8 byte strings.  So we're at least predictable and reduces one
>     source of UnicodeDecodeErrors (like in bug 989496)
> * Merged in lp:~mterry/duplicity/1031277
>   - ssh: actually delete all the requested files, not just the first one
> * Merged in lp:~mterry/duplicity/leftover-sigtar
>   - So currently, duplicity does not delete signature files when doing a
>     remove-all-but-n operation. Seems wrong, since those signature files are
> now
>     useless and take up space.
>   - This branch does several things:
>     1) Make remove-all-but-n operate on chains. In practice it did before,
> since
>        the sets it operated on always came from complete chains (i.e. it
> never
>        used only some of the sets from a chain)
>     2) Add a new method to get all signature chains before a certain time.
>     3) Use this new method to also delete signature chains during
> remove-all-but
>        operations.
>   - And it cleans up the cleanuptest.py file:
>     1) Removes crufty, unused code
>     2) Disallows changing the destination folder for the test, which no one
>        would ever want to do and isn't really supported anyway
>     3) Add some additional checks to the existing test
>     4) Adds two new methods to test remove-all-but-n and
>        remove-all-inc-of-but-n-full
> * Merged in lp:~ed.so/duplicity/duplicity.manpage
>   - disabled hyphenation and block justification for better readablility of
>     command line examples.
>   - reformatted REQUIREMENTS section for hopefully better online rendering
>   - minor clarifications
> * Merged in lp:~gregretkowski/duplicity/cf-retry-delete
>   - This will retry cloudfile delete commands. With large numbers of archive
>     files over mediocre links transient network errors will occasionally
> cause
>     deletes to fail and these should be retried.
> * Merged in lp:~mterry/duplicity/ropath.index
>   - This branch does two main things:
>     1) Skips base dir entries when compiling the list of deleted delta
> iters.
>        (this gracefully recovers from the sort of situations that lead to
> bug
>        929067). I'm reasonably confident this is an uninvasive change, but
>        please confirm.
>     2) Overwrites the sigtar file on backup-restart. This is because AFAICT,
>        duplicity will rewrite the entire sigtar each restart. But we were
>        opening the sigtar file as "ab", so we'd just dump the contents on
> top
>        of the previous contents. Which was causing some confusion in bug
> 929067.
>        If I'm wrong that we don't always rewrite the entire sigtar each
> time,
>        this needs some rethink. Please also confirm that.
>   - In addition, I added two tests for the above two changes and make some
>     improvements elsewhere in the restarttest.py file while I was at it.
> * Merged in lp:~ed.so/duplicity/ssh-pexpect-msgbug
>   - Fixes 'UnboundLocalError: local variable 'msg' referenced before
> assignment'
>     in _ssh_pexpect.py
> * Merged in lp:~ed.so/duplicity/gpg.tmp
>   - place gpg.py tempfiles in duplicity's tmp subfolder which is cleaned
>     whatever happens
> * Merged in lp:~mterry/duplicity/u1-402
>   - Switch the code we check for out-of-space in u1backend.
> * Applied patch for #1066625 ubuntu one backend
>   - add delay between retries
>
> Bugs closed in this release:
> 519948     remove-* commands don't remove signature-files
> 907077     assert len(chain_list) == 2 AssertionError
> 929067     crash during restore: "assert ropath.index == (), ropath.index"
> 995851     doc improvement for --encrypt-key, --sign-key
> 997691     Ubuntu One backend should check for 402 error for out-of-space
> 1031269    remove-all-but-n-full broken
> 1039001    --exclude-if-present and --exclude-other-filesystems causes crash
>            with inaccessible other fs
> 1066625    ubuntu one backend does not work without gnome/dbus/x11 session
>
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