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and subject line Bug#1117254: fixed in backintime 1.6.1-1
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regarding backintime: Please update to 1.5.6 in "stable"
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Source: backintime
Version: 1.5.5-1
Severity: normal
Hello,
upstream maintainer here.
There is a new hotfix release (1.5.6) fixing four minor issues with as few code
modifications as possible. The later is because I recommend to integrate that
version into the current Debian stable (13, Trixie). The issues are not serious
but to some reports by users since the Trixie release I do assume this issues
affect quite a number of users.
Upstream changelog - Version 1.5.6 (2025-10-05)
* Fixed: Always use 0 as window ID value when inhibiting suspend via D-Bus
power manager (#2084, #2268, #2192)
* Fixed: Crash in "Manage profiles" dialog when using "qt6ct" (#2128)
* Fixed: Open online changelog if local CHANGES file is missing (#2266)
* Fixed: Disable opening browser (e.g. project website) in root-mode
I am aware that this unusual and need exceptional handling. I considered this
carefully. The diff between 1.5.5-1 and 1.5.6 is minimal. I preferred to
implement workarounds to keep the count of modified lines as minimal as
possible. Allow me to describe them in detail.
1. An overflow exception in rare cases when converting the xwindowid into
Unit32.
Workaround fix is using 0 instead of the xwindowid because there is no need for
thet latter. Code location: common/tools.py:inhibitSuspend(). Regarding the Qt
community, the use of xwindowid is not recommended at all and never was. And
its internal handling somehow changed between Qt5 and Qt6. That is why this
issue not appeared in earlier BIT versions. I always implemented a more elegant
solution in the latest dev version.
2. Crash in "Manage profiles" dialog when using "qt6ct"
This was about how I retrieved default icons to create a QLabel containing a
QIcon. It might also be related to the migration from Qt5 to Qt6. Two code
locations where affected:
qt/manageprofiles/tab_general.py::_create_label_encfs_deprecation()
qt/manageprofiles/tab_remove_retention.py::_label_rule_execute_order()
I refactored and moved that code into
qt/qttools.py::create_icon_label_warning()
3. Crash when open changelog via Help menu
BIT expected the CHANGES file but it is removed (converted into changelog.gz)
while Debian packaging. So BIT crashed. Now, the online changelog on the
projects website is used instead. I'll find a more elegant solution
to it in a later version.
4. Silently refuse to open browser in BITs root-mode
Documents like the changelog, user manual, project website, bug report url, etc
are opened in the browser. This won't work when BIT runs in root-mode (started
via pkexec).
The current simple workaround is just to disable the related entries in the
Help menu and give a hint in their tooltip. I'll find a more elegant solution
to it in a later version.
Regards,
Christian
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.12
APT prefers oldstable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500,
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
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Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: backintime
Source-Version: 1.6.1-1
Done: Fabio Fantoni <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
backintime, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Fabio Fantoni <[email protected]> (supplier of updated backintime package)
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Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:16:16 +0100
Source: backintime
Architecture: source
Version: 1.6.1-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Jonathan Wiltshire <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Fabio Fantoni <[email protected]>
Closes: 1091714 1117254
Changes:
backintime (1.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* New upstream version 1.6.1 (Closes: #1117254)
* Update standards version to 4.7.3, no changes needed
* d/control:
- add gettext, mkdocs-material and asciidoctor to Build-Depends
- backintime-common Recommends: add gocryptfs
- backintime-qt deps: add python3-pyqt6.qtsvg, qt6-translations-l10n
- backintime-qt Recommends: add qt6-wayland
- remove obsolete Breaks/Replaces/Conflicts
* d/menu: remove deprecated Debian menu file
* remove d/README.source, have only obsolete content
* d/upstream/metadata: add Repository field
* d/salsa-ci.yml: licenserecon now included in the main pipeline
* add d/p/0001-Fix-missing-man5-directory-creation-in-configure.patch
* update d/copyright
* d/rules:
- generate user manual and put in backintime-common
in /usr/share/doc/backintime-common/manual/ (Closes: #1091714)
- remove sitemap.xml and 404.html not needed for local docs
- don't remove "duplicate" license files for now
* Register documentation via doc-base
* Add patch to disable Google Fonts for privacy (font: false)
* Update d/lrc.config
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