Hello! Upstream maintainer here, and your comment (discussing feature
freeze) is maybe a good opportunity to run through my recommendations
for 25.10, if you'll indulge me.

So Debian recently (finally) updated from the ancient Deja Dup 45.2
version they'd been using to 49.alpha. Which is great! And that means
you folks have 49.x as well. But there are a lot of changes since 45.2.

Bugs that will hit the current packaging in Ubuntu:

OneDrive support is broken (this bug). To avoid updating all of rclone, you 
could simply add these two patches:
  - 
https://github.com/rclone/rclone/commit/aee8d909b3925df17f5e0c82348a2597bc3457ac
  - 
https://github.com/rclone/rclone/commit/dedad9f071d81a2b6bf980d5f48d7997cae160af
  - That's probably enough to make OneDrive work again.

Network server support is broken 
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/restic/+bug/2121314). This can be 
fixed with the following patch in Restic:
  - 
https://github.com/restic/restic/commit/b71fe91643095cdb8893c6c19b43ee9b21c8c1cd

Restic is now the default backend (instead of Duplicity).
  - To avoid needing to promote Restic to main, I recommend downgrading this 
from a Depends on the Ubuntu side. Deja Dup will offer to install it via 
Packagekit on demand.
  - It's not the preferred user experience from my POV, but that might be 
better for you than a promotion review at this point in the release cycle. 
Maybe could re-evaluate for 26.04.
  - Alternatively, you could downgrade to Deja Dup 48.4, where Restic was still 
opt-in and not the default experience. But 49.x is better, and it might be nice 
to have an extra release cycle before the LTS with this change.
  - Alternatively, you could patch in a new default setting to keep using 
Duplicity by default (this would be a simple gsettings override) - again, not 
the preferred user experience, but it's another option.

tl;dr; apply those patches to rclone and restic and downgrade Restic
from a Depends - that should get Deja Dup in a good spot for 25.10,
imho.

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