Package: dar Version: 2.4.0-1 Severity: normal This is the second of my bug reports about dar 2.4 breaking existing backup scripts (in particular, Manuel Iglesias's DAR_automatic_backup.sh script).
In order to prevent the above error being (incorrectly) reported, my dar backup script had to be edited to add the following dar command line option: --alter=secu My understanding of the description of the problem (at http://dar.linux.free.fr/doc/FAQ.html#security) is that this will occur forever (not just when you have "just moved from a dar version older than release 2.4.0 to dar version 2.4.0 or more recent" as that page says) if you still have archives produced with old versions of dar involved in your incremental backup scheme. I believe this requires a NEWS entry to warn people, when upgrading, that they may need to add the "--alter=secu" option to the dar command line if their scripts do incremental backups using archives created with previous versions of dar. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IE@euro, LC_CTYPE=en_IE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_IE@euro) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dar depends on: ii libattr1 1:2.4.46-3 Extended attribute shared library ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.13-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdar64-5 2.4.0-1 Disk ARchive: Shared library ii libgcc1 1:4.6.1-4 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.6.1-4 GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime dar recommends no packages. Versions of packages dar suggests: ii dar-docs 2.4.0-1 Disk ARchive: Backup directory tre pn par2 <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
